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3Changes in 1.4.21 (2026-0?-??):
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5    Improve manual wording
6
7    cavern: Pick better 3d file separator for Walls
8    Walls uses `:` as a separator between prefixes and between any prefix and
9    the station name, so now cavern takes into account which characters are
10    allowed in Walls station names when picking the separator to use in the
11    .3d file - for a pure Walls dataset, it will pick `:`, so Walls station
12    names in the .3d file should match the names as shown in Walls.
13    If a dataset mixes data in Walls format with Survex and/or Compass data,
14    then it's possible `:` is used in a Survex or Compass station name - if
15    so a different separator will be chosen.
16    Previously, cavern would pick `.` for the separator for a pure Walls
17    dataset, even though if it was used in station names.
18
19    Merge updates to Russian translation
20
21    Implement support for Walls diving data
22    The Walls manual says to use the combination of ``TAPE=SS`` with
23    ``ORDER=DA`` or ``ORDER=AD`` for underwater legs, so map this to
24    Survex's diving style.
25    Issue highlighted by a dataset from Darek Lubomski.
26
27    *entrance before unused *fix ...
28
29    In native Survex data, `*fix` with SDs now sets the "fixed" flag
30    on the station in the .3d file.
31
32    In Walls data, `#note` and `#flags` are meant to suppress unused
33    fixed point warnings, but only did if they came after the `#fix`.
34    Also `#flags` without any flags didn't suppress the warning but
35    now does.
36
37    In Walls data, the word `fix` in `#flags` no longer sets the "fixed"
38    flags in the .3d file - we now only set it for stations used in `#fix`.
39    This seems a more logical approach, since `#flags` is just free-form
40    text which Walls itself doesn't ascribe particular semantics to.
41
42    cavern: Check value after TAPE= in Walls data
43
44    Say "directive" instead of "command" in Walls docs
45    This is the terminology Walls uses.
46
47    cavern: In Walls data, downgrade the "Unknown command" error to a
48    warning for some invalid directives which Walls quietly accepts.
49    Issue highlighted by a dataset from Darek Lubomski.
50
51    Document filename case mismatch issue.
52    Issue highlighted by a dataset from Darek Lubomski.
53
54Changes in 1.4.20 (2026-03-04):
55
56* aven: The viewing volume now includes the vertical extent of terrain which
57  fixes problems with the terrain being clipped when there's an extreme
58  vertical difference between the terrain and the cave is extreme.
59  Hopefully fixes #148, reported by Chris Curry.
60
61* aven: Improve handling of the scale when reloading an updated version of the
62  .3d file already being viewed.
63
64* aven: Add missing shortcuts to Orientation menu and "Reverse Direction" menu
65  item.  Reported by echarlie's friend.
66
67* aven: Where possible use L for "Elevation" menu accelerator, which matches
68  the shortcut key.
69
70* cavern: Improve handling of Walls percentage gradient.  Support explicit
71  percentage override ('p' suffix) and fix handling of overriding percentage
72  gradient to specify a plumb.  Reported by echarlie on #survex.
73
74* cavern: Support d:m:s for Walls bearings and gradients.  Reported by echarlie
75  on #survex.
76
77* cavern: Add `gps` as alias for `position` team role.  See:
78  https://github.com/therion/therion/issues/709
79
80* cavern: Warn for no blank after token in *cartesian (another case related to
81  #135).
82
83* manual: Document N, S, E and W shortcut keys for aven.
84
85* manual: Mark up codes and tokens in tables which avoids them getting
86  word-wrapped and hyphenated.  It also means they now get rendered in the
87  tables the same way they are referred to in the text.
88
89* manual: Separate each block of *instrument examples.
90
91* manual: Consistently document versions where features were deprecated.
92
93* Eliminate out-of-date postal address from licensing information.  Direct
94  people who somehow didn't receive the licence text to a copy on the FSF
95  website instead.
96
97Changes in 1.4.19 (2025-12-17):
98
99* aven/survexport: Rework PLT export to use 2 character escapes for spaces
100  and other characters which aren't valid in Compass station names.  We were
101  using 3 character escapes, but that's unhelpful since Compass has a 12
102  character station name limit.
103
104* cavern: The syntax of *instrument commands is now checked and a warning
105  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
106
107* cavern: Improve description of --quiet option.  Reported by Wookey.
108
109* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now always updates DLLs it
110  installs rather than skipping DLLs which declare the same version number.
111  This avoids problems when DLLs change in an upwardly but not downwardly
112  compatible way but keep the same version number.  It also means downgrading
113  now gives an install more like installing the older version from scratch
114  would.  Our DLLs are all private and installed into our own install directory
115  so there are no concerns with breaking other installed software.  Fixes #145.
116  Reported by Footleg and Juan Corrin.
117
118* Fill in some missing Czech translations.
119
120* Update unofficial Inno Setup translations for the installer.
121
122* We now require at least FFmpeg >= 3.2 to build Survex.  This version was
123  released in 2016 so should be easily available everywhere now.
124
125* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop workaround for wx-config --rescomp not
126  working as this has now been fixed in the mingw package of wxWidgets.
127
128* Test suite:
129
130  + Add test coverage for `*data normal` without `clino`.
131
132Changes in 1.4.18 (2025-11-04):
133
134* aven: Fix "Enter" in search control to zoom to results.  This was broken
135  by the switch to wxSearchCtrl in 1.4.17.
136
137* aven: Fix "Find stations" search box width with wxWidgets >= 3.2.7.  Patch
138  https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/15 from Thomas Holder.
139
140* aven: (Microsoft Windows version): Fix sizing of indicators (scalebar,
141  compass, clino, colour key) on HiDPI monitors.  Fixes #144, reported by Juan
142  Corrin.
143
144* aven/survexport: Set UTM zone and datum in exported Compass PLT.
145
146* cavern: Avoid duplicate errors/warnings with unconnected data.  Since 1.4.10,
147  unconnected data is only a warning but that resulted in us running some
148  checks on the survey tree twice, which could result in duplicate
149  errors/warnings.
150
151* cavern: Fix parsing of hex digits in *set.  Hex digits a-f were incorrectly
152  being handled as 0-5, so 0x0a was byte 0 not byte 10.
153
154* cavern: We now track the column as well as file:line where a station or
155  survey name was used, so diagnostics which use these locations now report
156  a column number too.
157
158* cavern: Show context if proj can't convert coords.  We only do this for .svx
159  files currently as it is more complex for Compass and Walls data.
160
161* cavern: Fix reported column for error for `-` for Walls tape field.
162  In this context, Walls requires 2 or more `-` to indicate an omitted field.
163
164* cavern: Compass MAK file parsing improvements:
165
166  + Comments are now skipped.  Previously a commented-out MAK file command
167    would still be interpreted by cavern, which was incorrect.
168
169  + Whitespace handling has been adjusted to more closely match Compass.
170
171  + Unknown commands are now warned about.  Compass seems to quietly ignore
172    unknown commands, but it seems helpful for cavern to report them as it
173    will help identify any bugs in Survex's parsing of MAK files, and any
174    new or undocumented MAK file commands which we don't support.  It can also
175    help detect typos in data entry.
176
177  + We now skip to the closing `;` for unknown commands and commands we
178    ignore as not relevant to us, whereas previously we're just skip the
179    initial character which gives the type of command and then look for
180    another command.  This doesn't seem to make any difference in practice as
181    none of these commands appear to be able to contain text which could be
182    interpreted as a different valid Compass MAK file command.
183
184* (Microsoft Windows version): The toolchain we use to build this version
185  seems to have changed in an unhelpful way.  We've got the build working
186  again, but when aven is launched a black window opens first, then the
187  aven window opens over the top.  The black window stays around until
188  aven is closed.  This extra window doesn't really get in the way of using
189  aven, but it's not supposed to be there.  It doesn't seem to be due to a
190  change in the Survex code as the 1.2.17 build doesn't do this, but a
191  rebuild of 1.2.17 with just the minimum of build system changes does.
192  If you have suitable skills help fixing this would be much appreciated.
193
194* (Microsoft Windows version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, like we
195  already do for Unix.  Unlocked file I/O can be much faster in some cases (we
196  don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file I/O).
197
198* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix compiler warning in wrapaven.c.
199
200* (Microsoft Windows version): Work around wx-config --rescomp no longer
201  working.  The mingw package of wxWidgets has started to return an empty
202  string here.  We don't support building with MSVC, so hardcoding `windres`
203  here isn't really a problem in practice.
204
205* Manual: Document that *set eol default includes x1A (Ctrl-Z) to provide
206  compatibility with old DOS text files (it always has done but was missing
207  from the documentation).
208
209* Merge updates to Russian translation.
210
211* Add the start of a Czech translation.
212
213* Update unofficial Inno Setup translations for the installer.
214
215* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.2.  It is starting to become hard to keep
216  everything working with 3.0.0 and the time and effort seems better directed
217  to other things.  The last 3.0.x release was 3.0.5.1, released 2020-05-02.
218  3.2.0 was released 2022-07-06 and it seems everywhere with wxWidgets packages
219  upgraded to 3.2.x some time ago.
220
221* Test suite:
222
223  + cavern.tst: Test more mixed line ending cases.
224
225  + Turn off tests involving aven and survexport on mingw, as we can no longer
226    seem to run these programs during the build.  Rebuilding the last commit
227    that worked now fails, so this is not due to a change in the Survex code.
228    There is no error message, but bash shows exit code 127 which means it
229    failed to run the command.
230
231  + Improve handling of VERBOSE in tests.  Previously VERBOSE showed output
232    from all testcases, even ones which passed.  Now we only show output from
233    testcases which fail for VERBOSE=1.  Other non-empty values of VERBOSE
234    continue to show all output for cavern.tst and smoke.tst, but have the same
235    effect as VERBOSE=1 for other tests.
236
237  + compare.tst: Fix to actually work, support --help, and allow comparing
238    cavern runs which fail.  This script is not run as part of the automated
239    tests but assists manually comparing two versions of cavern on the same
240    data which can be helpful for debugging and during development.
241
242Changes in 1.4.17 (2025-03-20):
243
244* aven: Add support for exaggerating Z.  You can now set a Z scale factor
245  from 0.1 to 10.0 via a new widget on the toolbar.  Fixes #49.
246
247* aven: The cavern log window now chooses foreground and background colours
248  based on the desktop's light mode/dark mode setting.  Previously it
249  used the default window background colour but always used black text, which
250  made it hard to read with a dark desktop theme.  (The wxWidgets API to detect
251  dark mode is new in 3.2, so if built with wxWidgets 3.0 then we assume
252  light mode.)
253
254* aven: The station search feature now uses the standard search
255  widget on GTK 3.6 or later and on macOS.  There's now a placeholder
256  text shown when there's no search to make it clearer what this
257  widget is for.
258
259* aven: There's currently a cavern bug where it can fail to identify all
260  traverses which are not involved in loop closure, which results in the .3d
261  file contains error information for them (unfortunately this seems tricky to
262  fully fix).  This error information is always zero, so as a workaround aven
263  attempts to detect these so that "colour by error" shows them as "not in
264  loop".  This workaround previously only checked for E being zero, but now
265  H and V are both also required to be zero.  This should help avoid some very
266  low error traverses being incorrectly treated as "not in loop", although in
267  practice I've not yet found a real world case where this actually makes a
268  difference.
269
270* aven: Fix the output encoding of `aven --help`, `--version`, etc.
271  Previously these were always encoded as UTF-8 which is usually right
272  on a modern system, but the terminal could be using a different
273  encoding.
274
275* aven: Reduce startup overhead a little when the terminal has a UTF-8
276  locale (which is now the default on most Linux distros).
277
278* cavern: Fix an "assertion failed" error in some situations when
279  equating to a fixed point.  This bug was introduced by changes
280  in 1.4.13.  Fixes #143, reported by Juan Corrin.
281
282* cavern: The syntax of *copyright commands is now checked and a warning
283  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
284
285* cavern: The syntax of *team commands is now checked and a warning
286  issued for problems.  The information in the command is still not yet used.
287
288* cavern: Stop reporting node stats.  These are kind of interesting, but
289  with the widespread use of Disto-X and similar devices which can easily
290  shoot multiple splay legs from each station means the number of larger order
291  nodes has increased and this information is now quite verbose and any utility
292  it had has substantially declined.  If these statistics are still wanted then
293  they could make a reappearance in the future in aven, with splays excluded
294  when counting the number of legs at each station.  Fixes #86, reported by
295  Wookey.
296
297* cavern: Fix wrong "unused fixed point" warning with *solve.
298
299* cavern: Fix double counting of stations which are referenced both before and
300  after *solve.
301
302* cavern: Suppress loop and component counts if *solve is used.  Our component
303  count was often wrong in this case but this looks very hard to fix.  These
304  counts are not vital so better to omit than report wrong values.
305
306* cavern: The "Equating two equal fixed points" warning now lists the
307  stations on the same order as they are in the `.svx` file which
308  seems clearer.
309
310* Speed up reading and writing of .3d files.  The time to read a large .3d file
311  and just count the stations and legs was more than halved by this change.
312
313* Simplify handling of errors loading the messages file.  The error
314  messages for this case are now stored as separate ASCII strings in
315  the executables which reduces the startup overhead a little as we
316  no longer need to scan them and potentially reencode them.
317
318* img library: The img struct's filename_opened member was always NULL when
319  used outside of Survex (and set but never actually used inside of Survex)
320  so it has been removed.  If you are referencing it in your code then instead
321  use the filename you passed to img_open_survey() when opening the file.
322
323* Documentation: Add details of warning about future dates in *date.
324
325* Documentation: Added new manual chapter on the img library.
326
327* Documentation: Improve comments document API in img.h.
328
329* Testsuite: Add proper test coverage for `*ref`.
330
331* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
332
333* Portability: Eliminate unintended use of a C++17 feature (static_assert
334  with only one argument).
335
336* Portability: Avoid compiler warnings/errors in getopt code by properly
337  declaring getenv().
338
339Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
340
341* aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
342  final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
343  indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported by
344  Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
345
346* aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
347  search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which highlights
348  with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
349  1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
350
351* cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
352  with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
353  affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.  Reported by
354  Eric C. Landgraf.
355
356* cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a way
357  to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination auto`
358  are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
359
360* cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged legs
361  to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs to
362  1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.  Previously
363  Survex ignore this flag entirely.
364
365* Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
366
367* Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
368  discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually still
369  using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
370  precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting testcases to
371  avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
372
373* Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
374
375* Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
376
377* Various minor improvements to documentation.
378
379* Various minor improvements to test coverage.
380
381Changes in 1.4.15 (2024-12-24):
382
383* aven: Avoid infinite redraw loop if GDAL gives an error loading geodata to
384  overlay.
385
386* aven: Turn off full-screen mode bodges when running on macOS 10.7 or later.
387  Fixes #110
388
389* aven/survexport: (Microsoft Windows version): Enable GDAL support so you
390  can now overlay geodata (in aven) and export shapefiles.
391
392* cavern: Remove now-bogus assertion which can fire when there's a survey not
393  connected to any fixed points (since 1.4.10 made unconnected data a warning
394  instead of an error).  Reported by Philip Balister.
395
396* (Microsoft Windows version): Strip debug data from .exe and .dll files which
397  reduces the installer size by around 5%.
398
399* Testsuite: Normalise -0.00 in DXF bounds too to avoid possible test failures
400  on x86.
401
402Changes in 1.4.14 (2024-12-11):
403
404* aven/survexport: Add support for exporting shapefiles.  This requires GDAL so
405  currently isn't enabled in the Microsoft Windows build.  Thanks to Eric C.
406  Landgraf for testing.  Fixes #87.
407
408* cavern: If *date with just year is followed by a blank, cavern expects a date
409  range and gives an error if another date doesn't follow.  Bug was introduced
410  in 1.4.13.
411
412* aven/cavern: Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches.
413
414* Documentation: Add some details on how to handle Toporobot "serie" station
415  naming.
416
417* Updates to Bulgarian, Hungarian, Russian and Slovak translations.
418
419* Testsuite: Adjust lollipop testcase to pass on i386 where excess precision
420  was changing which station was reported as the southernmost of multiple
421  candidate stations).
422
423Changes in 1.4.13 (2024-12-01):
424
425* aven:
426
427  + Don't show crosses on anonymous stations since they just clutter up the
428    display (especially for anonymous splays).  Suggested by Andrew Atkinson.
429
430  + Fix 1.4.10 regression in plotting of station names.  Each anonymous station
431    was blocking out a small rectangle which no actual station name could
432    overlap.  Reported by Špela Borko.
433
434  + Reduced start-up time by only initialising GDAL if we have overlays to
435    show.
436
437  + (Microsoft Windows version): Avoid recurring "GDAL support not enabled in
438    this build" message box.  This message is now only shown once if you try to
439    add an overlay.  Reported by Špela Borko.
440
441* cavern:
442
443  + Update to use v14 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
444    This was issued in November 2024 and should give slightly more accurate
445    declinations for surveys made since 2015.  Fixes #137.
446
447  + The component count was wrong in some cases, and we calculate the number
448    of loops using this component count, so the loop count would also be wrong
449    by the same amount in these cases.
450
451  + The component count and loop count are now reported when there are
452    unconnected survey stations.
453
454  + *date now supports ISO format dates.  Fixes #96, reported by Milosch.
455
456  + *date now supports date types "surveyed" and "explored" (existing usage
457    without an explicit type is interpreted as "surveyed").
458
459  + If the output directory isn't writable or doesn't exist we would complain
460    that we can't create the .err file - now we try to create the .3d file
461    first so complain about that instead which seems more helpful.  Reported by
462    Eric C. Landgraf.
463
464  + When inventing a fixed point we now avoid picking a fixed point which is
465    only attached to nosurvey legs if there's another option.  The code was
466    already meant to do this but it was buggy and we lacked a testcase for this
467    situation.
468
469  + Survey network reduction now finds some delta-star opportunities which were
470    being overlooked.  This allows more complicated networks to be reduced
471    further so fewer and/or smaller matrices need solving, which is faster.
472
473  + Survey network reduction now handles a "lollipop" with a fixed stick end
474    specially which is a little bit faster.  A more visible consequence is
475    fewer "Solving one equation..." messages when solving a complex survey
476    network.
477
478  + Survey network reduction now makes use of articulating legs to split up the
479    problem a little more, so we will often now solve more but smaller matrices
480    which should be faster.
481
482  + Assigning matrix row numbers now identifies equated stations in a slightly
483    more efficient way.
484
485* dump3d: Provide a way to get ISO format dates output.
486
487* Documentation:
488
489  + Improve documentation of *date in the manual.  When a partial date is
490    specified (just a year, or a year and month only) the documentation claimed
491    the centre of that year or month is used but actually this case is treated
492    as a date range covering the whole year or month (respectively).  The end
493    result is effectively the same as what was previously documented though
494    since the centre of a date range is used as the date for calculating
495    automatic declinations and is the date used by aven.
496
497* Test suite:
498
499  + Adjust hpglexport testcase to avoid i386 excess precision causing one of
500    the HPGL coordinates to differ by one from its value calculated without
501    excess precision.
502
503* Assorted translation updates.
504
505Changes in 1.4.12 (2024-10-23):
506
507* aven:
508
509  + (Microsoft Windows version): Geodata overlays are (hopefully temporarily)
510    no longer available in the pre-built version of Survex installed by the
511    Microsoft Windows installer.  We use the GDAL library to load them and
512    there's a hard to debug problem during DLL initialisation somewhere in its
513    dependency tree.  If you really need geodata overlays, the 1.4.9 installer
514    still works.  Thanks to Wookey for extensive testing to investigate the
515    problem, and to everyone else who reported this.
516
517* cavern:
518
519  + A leg with the same station as from and to is now only a warning in
520    Compass data.  Compass itself seems to quietly ignore such legs, but
521    they seem worth warning about.  In native Survex data this is still
522    an error.
523
524  + Short survey and station names are now stored without an extra memory
525    allocation.  On a 64-bit platform (most modern computers) we can store
526    name components up to 7 characters in this way; on a 32-bit platform
527    up to 3 characters.  On a large dataset which needs large matrices
528    solving this reduces cavern's memory usage by 3.5MB (~4.5%).  It's
529    also fractionally faster (but only ~0.05% which is not normally even
530    measurable).
531
532  + Assigning matrix row numbers to stations is now faster and allocates
533    less memory.
534
535* (Microsoft Windows version): The Microsoft Windows installer is now
536  named `survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.12.exe`.  The old name was
537  `survex-win32-1.4.11.exe` but the "win32" is now misleading as it's been a
538  64-bit build since 1.4.9.  Reported by Wookey.
539
540* Testsuite:
541
542  + dump3d.tst: Add tests of img library's survey filtering.
543
544  + cavern.tst: Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in JSON test output before
545    comparing with expected output.  We can get -0.00 on x86 due to excess
546    precision.
547
548* img library:
549
550  + Survey filtering now works correctly for files which use a survey level
551    separator other than `.`.  Patch https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/14
552    from Thomas Holder.
553
554  + Reading a v7 or earlier .3d format extended elevation with survey filtering
555    was failing to set is_extended_elevation.
556
557Changes in 1.4.11 (2024-08-14):
558
559* aven:
560
561  + Add imperial scales for export and printing.  Fixes #132, reported by Eric
562    C. Landgraf.
563
564* aven/survexport:
565
566  + HPGL export now uses pen 2 for splays and pen 3 for surface legs.  Partly
567    addresses #60.
568
569  + HPGL export now supports scaling (previous the scale was always
570    1:40000).
571
572  + KML export now distinguishes surface legs and splays using different
573    line styles.  Partly addresses #60.
574
575  + Remove Skencil export support.  The last release of Skencil was in 2005.
576    There was an attempt to revive the project in 2010, but that didn't lead to
577    another release and seems to have petered out.  No current Linux distro (or
578    other package system) seems to have Skencil packages, and the current git
579    version still appears to require Python 2 which is being phased out.
580
581* cavern:
582
583  + Support `*data ignore` to allow ignoring a block of survey data lines.
584    Closes #114, reported by Alastair Gott.
585
586  + Report error for bad final reading in `*data` command (previously such a
587    bad reading was quietly ignored).
588
589  + If the survey in `*end` doesn't match that in `*begin` the location of
590    that `*begin` is now reported as well - the second message here is new
591    for example:
592
593     badbegin.svx:6:8: error: Survey name doesn't match BEGIN
594      *end   bar
595             ^~~
596     badbegin.svx:4:13: info: Corresponding BEGIN was here
597      *begin      foo
598                  ^~~
599
600  + Now shows a context line for a reading which was on the previous line,
601    which can happen for interleaved data styles.
602
603  + Warn when a token is not followed by a blank, comment or end of line.
604    This is an unintentional tokenisation oddity which has been present
605    for a really long time.  We don't want to break files that rely on this
606    (even if they likely only do accidentally) so emit a warning rather than
607    an error.
608
609    This warning can easily be eliminated by adding a space where indicated,
610    which will work with old and new Survex versions.  Fixes #135.
611
612  + Errors and warnings which report an unexpected token now report a
613    contiguous span of letters and numbers rather than just letters in cases
614    where a number can't follow (which is the majority of cases).
615
616  + If `*require` isn't satisfied, the `*require` line is now shown for
617    context (especially helpful if there's a comment after the command noting
618    the reason for the requirement, as we now suggest in the manual).
619
620  + `*require` version parsing improved - spaces are no longer tolerated in
621    a version number and trailing junk after the version number is now
622    handled more consistently.
623
624  + Fixed several situations in which the highlighting of the context for a
625    diagnostic was off by a small number of columns.
626
627  + Optimise building of matrix during network solving.
628
629  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files:
630
631    - After reporting an error for an unsupported datum, we now set the datum
632      to WGS84 to prevent triggering further errors from code which tries to
633      use the datum.
634
635    - Parse Walls WPJ commands as alphanumeric rather than alphabetic tokens,
636      which better matches how Walls parses them.  This only makes a difference
637      in the error message when we don't recognise a WPJ command.
638
639* Documentation:
640
641  + Note `feet` are international feet and how to select a different
642    definition in `*units` docs.
643
644  + Document `grads` are also known as "neugrads" and "gons" in `*units` docs.
645
646* Assorted translation updates.
647
648* testsuite:
649
650  + Fix bug in normalisation of `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before
651    comparing with expected output.
652
653* Update and improve vim syntax highlighting:
654
655  + `*cartesian` added
656
657  + `*data ignore` added
658
659  + `mils` units now highlighted as deprecated
660
661  + `UP` and `DOWN` are no longer highlighted anywhere in a command
662
663  + `U`, `D`, `LEVEL`, `-V`, `+V`, `.`, `..` and `...` now highlighted in data
664    lines
665
666  + Repeated `NOT` in `*flags` is now highlighted as an error
667
668  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to not flag an error just
669    because there's a comment after the filename
670
671  + Fix error highlighting for unquoted `*include` to work when there's
672    whitespace between `*` and `include`
673
674Changes in 1.4.10 (2024-08-05):
675
676* aven:
677
678  + Use a fixed rotation rate for rotating the view to North, South, East or
679    West (shortcut keys `N`, `S`, `E` and `W`).  We were using the same
680    variable rate which auto-rotation does for this case, but really these are
681    just animations to help the user see the change that's happening, so a
682    fixed rate makes more sense (and is what tilting to plan or elevation
683    does).  The new fixed rotation rate for this is double what the default
684    variable rate was, which means the longest rotation (e.g. from S to N)
685    takes 3 seconds rather than 6.
686
687* aven/survexport:
688
689  + Fix syntax of shot flags in PLT export (incorrect since introduced in
690    1.4.6).
691
692  + Map Survex duplicate flag to `L` shot flag in PLT export.
693
694  + Invent shorter names for anonymous stations in PLT export.  The PLT file
695    format documentation says station names can be up to 12 characters, but the
696    ones we generated were longer than this which is liable to trip up
697    consumers of this format that only allow for the specified length.
698    We now generate names using a sequential counter with a two character
699    prefix so they should fit in the 12 character limit for any cave
700    survey.
701
702  + 3D export now includes all leg and station flags.
703
704* cavern:
705
706  + Unconnected survey stations are now handled as a warning, whereas
707    previously this was an error.  This is necessary when processing Walls data
708    where it seems having hanging surveys is the norm, and Walls itself only
709    warns about them.
710
711    The support is also enabled for native Survex data since it allows viewing
712    the connected parts of a survey with missing connections without having to
713    comment out the unconnected parts (and then remember to fully uncomment
714    once connections are surveyed).  Fixes #16, reported by Duncan Collis.
715
716    Currently the component count and loop count are not shown in this case.
717
718  + Avoid multiple reports of an unconnected survey station.  This could happen
719    in some cases where a group of equated stations had more than four legs
720    connected to it.
721
722  + Fix missing report of unconnected survey station.  We aim to report at
723    least one station in every unconnected piece of survey, but if a piece had
724    been simplified to a single station which was anonymous (e.g. a disto splay
725    shot) then we wouldn't report anything for that piece.  Now we find the
726    traverse that was attached to it and report the next station along that
727    traverse.
728
729  + Report file and line location each unconnected survey station.
730
731  + This warning now says either `*entrance` or `*export` depending on which
732    it actually was:
733
734      Station "bar.1" referred to by *entrance or *export but never used
735
736  + Fix several cases of mishandling comments without blanks before them:
737
738    - After an anonymous station.
739
740    - After an ignored reading.  The `ignore` would incorrectly also skip the
741      comment character and any characters which followed up to the next blank
742      or end of line.
743
744    - In a `*alias` command.
745
746    - Diagnostic highlighting could continue into a comment.
747
748  + New `*cartesian` command which supports different orientations of
749    `cartesian` style data.
750
751  + Anonymous stations are now supported in `cartesian` style data.
752
753  + `*fix a reference` (without any coordinates) is now an error.  The
754    `reference` token provides a way to have a list of known fixed points which
755    are not expected to all be currently used, while omitting the coordinates
756    provides a way to specify a point to arbitrarily fix rather than rely on
757    cavern picking one.  Allowing both together doesn't really make sense.
758
759  + Improve check for 180° backclino to suppress the warning about a compass
760    reading on a plumbed leg (introduced in 1.4.8) to allow a small tolerance
761    on the value.  Previously the check wasn't working on x86 Linux for
762    example.
763
764  + When showing a line as the location of a diagnostic we now render any
765    tab character as a single space which means the `^~~~~` highlight length
766    is now correct even when the highlighted part contains tabs.  This only
767    affects use from a terminal as the highlight was already correctly handled
768    when viewing the log in aven.
769
770  + Enhancements and fixes to reading Walls WPJ and SRV files (thanks to Eric
771    C. Landgraf and Joe for a lot of great feedback from testing with large
772    datasets):
773
774    - The `RECT=` option is now fully supported.
775
776    - Fix `#DATE` with an active `.REF` to act like `DECL=`.  This matches what
777      the documentation says and what Walls seems to actually do.
778
779    - Allow completely omitting the clino on a wall shot (with `ORDER=DAV` or
780      `ORDER=ADV`).
781
782    - Resolve WPJ `.PATH` relative to innermost containing book.
783
784    - Handle an empty Walls station name.  Walls allows a station with an
785      explicit prefix to have an empty name, e.g. `PEP:`.  The Walls
786      documentation doesn't mention this, though it also doesn't explicitly say
787      the name can't be empty.  This quirk seems unlikely to be intentionally
788      used and Survex doesn't allow an empty station name, so we issue a
789      warning and use the name `empty name` (which has a space in, so can't
790      collide with a real Walls station name which can't contain a space) - so
791      `PEP:` in Walls becomes `PEP.empty name` in Survex.
792
793    - Flag stations with explicit Walls prefix as exported.
794
795    - Fix setting empty Walls macro with a comment right after it.
796
797    - Walls quietly ignores junk after the numeric argument in `TYPEAB=`,
798      `TYPEVB=`, `UV=`, `UVH=`, and `UVV=`.  This seems to be an undocumented
799      feature/bug so Survex emits a warning and skips the junk.
800
801    - After an unknown Walls option we now process the rest of the line.
802      Previously we were skipping the rest of the line.
803
804    - We no longer skip the rest of the line after a bad Walls `ORDER=` option.
805
806    - Correct the reported column for some Walls option diagnostics.
807
808    - Support explicit units on Walls clino readings.
809
810    - Allow `#` in Walls station names.  This is explicitly documented as not
811      allowed, but the documentation doesn't match the implementation and `#`
812      is present in some real-world data.
813
814    - Improve handling of Walls `RESTORE` error.  Highlight the position in the
815      line and don't skip the rest of the line.
816
817    - Don't warn about `INCH=` with a zero argument since that's the one case
818      of it we do handle!
819
820    - Fix not to skip the rest of the line after Walls `INCH=` option.
821      We currently don't support `INCH=` so we warn about it, but we were
822      skipping the rest of the line, then trying to read and discard the
823      argument to `INCH=` which gave an error.
824
825    - Relax handling of Walls `CASE=`.  It's not documented, but Walls32.exe
826      quietly treats unknown values as "Mixed".
827
828    - Support DM and DMS format for latitude and longitude in Walls `#FIX`,
829      e.g. `W97:43.875` and `W97:43:52.5` .
830
831    - Treat a zero length leg with finite variance like a Survex `*equate`.
832
833    - Apply Walls variance overrides to survey legs.
834
835    - The optional instrument and target heights are now parsed, but their
836      values are currently ignored.
837
838    - The delimiters around LRUD data are now parsed, but the LRUD data between
839      them is currently ignored.
840
841    - If a `#SEGMENT` value looks like a set of Compass shot flags (i.e.
842      consists only of upper case characters from `CLPSX`, optionally prefixed
843      with a `/` or `\`) then we interpret them as Compass shot flags (except
844      that `X` is mapped the same way as `L`).  This is apparently a common way
845      to use `#SEGMENT`, and unlikely to be triggered accidentally.
846
847    - Avoid a doubled directory separator when building Walls path names.
848
849* documentation:
850
851  + The manual has been converted from DocBook to reStructured Text.  The
852    plain-text format is much easier for making changes, and for users the
853    output from sphinx looks nicer and has extra features (like built-in
854    "Quick search" in the HTML output).
855
856    The plain text version of the manual is no longer generated.  Sphinx can
857    produce one but the .rst sources actually seem more readable for anyone
858    wanting to read the manual in plain text.
859
860    The extra targets to generate the manual in RTF and PostScript
861    have been dropped as I doubt they are still used (we stopped
862    providing them on the website years ago).  They could probably be
863    reinstated if there's a demand for them.
864
865    The conversion was partly automated followed by a full pass over the
866    result fixing issues with the automated conversion.  We took the
867    opportunity to also review the content and update or remove out of
868    date and other incorrect information, and to reorder some of the content.
869
870  + Document all the statistics in the `.err` file
871
872  + Document PLT export.
873
874  + Minor improvements to --help output
875
876  + The HTML version of the 1.4.9 manual was missing the Walls chapter
877    and had messed up paging links around it (due to the new CMAP chapter
878    accidentally also being given the filename `walls.htm`).  Reported by Eric
879    C. Landgraf.
880
881  + Document we don't enforce Walls' station or prefix length limits.
882
883  + Document handling of Walls `#NOTE`.
884
885  + Fix documentation of Walls `FLAG=` which is correctly handled, not skipped.
886
887  + Document how to compare Walls and Survex output via Shapefile.
888
889  + Document how to suppress unused fixed point warning in Walls SRV.
890
891* testsuite:
892
893  + Add testcase for Walls `#units order=da`.
894
895  + Add expected output for more testcases
896
897  + Add testcase for exporting .3d files.
898
899  + Normalise `-0.00` to `0.00` in DXF output before comparing to avoid bogus
900    test failures due to excess precision on x86 when using 387 FP
901    instructions.
902
903  + Add test of DXF export with full coordinates.
904
905* translations:
906
907  + Diagnostics can now use positional arguments which sometimes allows a
908    more natural word order in a translated message.
909
910Changes in 1.4.9 (2024-07-04):
911
912* aven:
913
914  + Support showing geodata overlays in Aven.  We use the GDAL library to load
915    the data, so this should work for any format which GDAL supports so long as
916    it can be read from the filing system and is geo-referenced vector data -
917    see https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/index.html for a list.  Currently the
918    dialog to select a file defaults to showing GPX, KML, GeoJSON and shape
919    files - set the filter to "All Files" to choose other formats.
920
921  + Reimplement display of cavern output.  The old version turned the log into
922    HTML and displayed it using wxHtmlWindow, but that adds a lot of overhead
923    and is especially inefficient if there are many diagnostics - cavern could
924    finish almost instantly yet aven could take many seconds to process the
925    output.  The new version renders directly from the log data.  It should
926    have most of the features from before - the only missing feature I'm
927    currently aware of is that you can't now select and copy text from the log
928    window, which wxHtmlWindow provided for free.  If people miss this feature,
929    we could add it to the new implementation.
930
931  + (Microsoft Windows version): Clicks in the cavern log window which load
932    files into an editor now protect the filename if it starts with a dash
933    to prevent it being interpreted as a command line option.  We already
934    do this for other platforms, but weren't on Microsoft Windows on the
935    assumption that it isn't needed because the filenames will be fully
936    qualified, but that may not be the case if aven if run by hand from the
937    command line or from some other launcher.
938
939* cavern:
940
941  + Add support for processing Walls format survey data (.SRV and .WPJ files).
942    This support is somewhat experimental but at a point where it seems useful
943    to make it easier for people to try out.  See the manual for a list of
944    known shortcomings.  Thanks to Eric C. Landgraf for a lot of testing and
945    encouragement.
946
947  + Fix bug with Compass DAT diving data.  If a survey uses the depth gauge
948    then since 1.4.6 we set its style to "diving", but we weren't clearing that
949    so all surveys after that in the same DAT file were also set as "diving".
950
951  + When parsing of Compass DAT files we report errors in more cases if the
952    input doesn't conform to the format we expect, rather than potentially
953    quietly misinterpreting the data.
954
955  + *entrance now suppresses "Unused fixed point" warning.  This warning is
956    intended to catch typos, which is much less likely for a station named
957    twice.  It's also reasonable to use only *fix and *entrance on a station at
958    the entrance of an unsurveyed cave.
959
960  + Highlight plumbed clino readings fully in diagnostics.  Now the full reading
961    is highlighted instead of just the first character.
962
963  + Report location of previous fix after "already fixed" error/warning.
964
965  + Use "info" diagnostic category for "Originally entered here" message.  This
966    is more logical as the original *begin isn't something to be warned about,
967    only the reentering is.  This was only a warning before because we didn't
968    used to have "info" diagnostics.
969
970  + Use "info" diagnostic category for message about not reporting further
971    uses of a deprecated feature.  Previously this was a warning, but the newer
972    "info" category is more appropriate here.
973
974  + The message about inventing a fixed point is now an "info" diagnostic which
975    allows us to report a location which is where that station is defined,
976    which may be useful to the user.
977
978  + Make highlighting position in error reporting more robust.  We no longer
979    try to highIight if we calculate a negative column offset, when previously
980    we would print billions of spaces.  As far as I know this has never
981    happened in a released version.
982
983  + Error messages which report the program name now remove any ".exe" suffix.
984    This helps the testsuite by making the expected output the same
985    cross-platform, but also seems slightly nicer for users.
986
987* dump3d:
988
989  + The timestamp reported by DATE_NUMERIC is now printed portably.  Previously
990    we were assuming that a time_t is the same size as a long int, which is not
991    true on all platforms.
992
993* manual:
994
995  + (Microsoft Windows version): Update information about installation
996    with/without admin rights.
997
998  + Summarise support for reading CMAP data and its assumptions and
999    limitations.
1000
1001  + Mention Compass, Walls and CMAP support in the importing data howto
1002    section.
1003
1004  + Drop mention of Rosetta Stal from the manual.  The referred to link from
1005    our website was removed in 2015 because Rosetta Stal hadn't been updated
1006    for 13.5 years at that point.  Now the domain it was available from has
1007    lapsed and is a domain squatter "for sale" page.
1008
1009* img library:
1010
1011  + The coordinates in CMAP data are in feet but we were dividing rather
1012    than multiplying by the conversion factor to get metres so all
1013    coordinates were about 10.76 times too large.
1014
1015  + Stations in CMAP "station" variant XYZ files are now flagged as
1016    underground (as they always have been for "shot" variant XYZ files).
1017
1018  + When reading CMAP XYZ files, we no longer emit duplicate img_LABEL for
1019    stations in loops.
1020
1021  + A CMAP XYZ file without a survey title is now handled correctly (this was
1022    reporting a bogus "Out of memory" error).
1023
1024  + The img.h header now defines constants IMG_VERSION_SURVEX_POS, etc for the
1025    values reported in the version field for non-.3d formats.
1026
1027  + (Microsoft Windows version): Workaround limitation of Microsoft's C
1028    library so we handle dates before 1970 in Compass PLT files, CMAP XYZ
1029    files, and older format .3d files.  Previously these were reported
1030    as "unknown date".
1031
1032* We now support overriding the location of support files by setting the
1033  SURVEXLIB environment variable.  We no longer look at the srcdir
1034  environment variable for this.
1035
1036* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created automatically
1037  on Github actions, which has required a few changes.  It now packages a
1038  64-bit build, and is created with Innosetup 6.3.2 which no longer supports
1039  Vista.  The installer is also now significantly larger, which is mostly
1040  because we now need to include a large number of DLLs, most of which are
1041  dependencies of the mingw64 FFmpeg and GDAL packages.
1042
1043* (Microsoft Windows version): If the directory where we expect the PROJ
1044  support files to be does not exist for some reason we now avoid triggering
1045  a segmentation fault in PROJ.
1046
1047* Build system:
1048
1049  + The GDAL library is now required to build Survex.
1050
1051  + (Microsoft Windows version): The probe for GL and GLU libraries now also
1052    checks for Microsoft's non-standard library names.
1053
1054  + Correct configure --help output for --enable-werror for which the default
1055    is actually "no" rather than "maintainer-mode".
1056
1057* testsuite:
1058
1059  + aven.tst: Skip a testcase when running on mingw as it seems to hang there.
1060    We already skip this testcase on macos for what appears to be the same
1061    problem.
1062
1063  + Fix comparison of output to work on platforms using DOS line endings.
1064
1065Changes in 1.4.8 (2024-04-23):
1066
1067* cavern:
1068
1069  + The warning for a compass reading on a plumbed leg was already suppressed
1070    for a compass or backcompass reading of 0, but is now also suppressed for a
1071    backcompass of 180° (or equivalent) which seems to be common in some Compass
1072    datasets, but also seems sensible generally.  Thanks to Simeon Warner for
1073    sharing some data which triggered such warnings.
1074
1075  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name is now also
1076    emitted in the case where a name was used first for a station, and then as
1077    a survey on an explicitly prefixed name.  Closes
1078    https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4, reported by Thomas Holder.
1079
1080  + The error for when a survey and station use the same name now highlights
1081    the problematic name within the line shown for context.
1082
1083  + Fix the reported token string reported by some errors with readings.  This
1084    happened to work on at least x86-64 Linux, but the code was invalid and
1085    failed on some architectures.
1086
1087* Fix to build with newer FFmpeg versions.
1088
1089* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer now offers the choice to install
1090  for just the current user, which allows installing Survex without admin
1091  rights.
1092
1093* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix problems with valid coordinate systems being
1094  rejected and aven's cavern log window not showing output.  Reported by
1095  Peter Mašič, Špela Borko, Răzvan Dumbravă and detrito.  Thanks especially to
1096  Špela Borko for a lot of testing to help track down the cause.
1097
1098Changes in 1.4.7 (2024-04-07):
1099
1100* cavern:
1101
1102  + When using *declination auto we report the range of calculated declinations
1103    for each location specified.  After doing this we now reset the range
1104    information we're tracking.  Previously we'd misreport the range for
1105    the second and subsequent locations.
1106
1107  + Avoid undefined behaviour on handling filename fallback for filenames
1108    containing non-ASCII characters.
1109
1110  + Show context line with relevant item highlighted for more errors and
1111    warnings.
1112
1113  + The dynamic string handling routines are now more efficient.
1114
1115  + Fix memory leak if a Compass MAK file opens folders it doesn't close.
1116
1117  + Fix handling of clino-less legs in Compass DAT.  These would cause cavern
1118    to fail with a lot of "NaN" messages.  Now they're treated as having a zero
1119    clino with a standard deviation based on the leg length, just like in .svx
1120    files.
1121
1122* img library:
1123
1124  + Compass PLT: Treat LRUD readings > 900 as omitted readings, which matches
1125    what Compass does.  Thanks to Larry Fish for clarifying this.
1126
1127  + Avoid undefined behaviour after realloc().  We were adjusting a pointer
1128    within the reallocated block by subtracting the old block address and
1129    adding on the new one.  Technically this is undefined behaviour, although
1130    in practice it seems likely it'll work and we've not seen misbehaviour due
1131    to it.  However it's easy to avoid by calculating the offset before the
1132    realloc().
1133
1134* Portability:
1135
1136  + Provide prototype for getopt() to avoid warnings with very recent compiler
1137    versions.
1138
1139  + Avoid using sprintf(), which now triggers warnings on some platforms.
1140
1141* Build system:
1142
1143  + Add configure --enable-werror option to turn compiler warnings into errors.
1144
1145* Manual:
1146
1147  + Expand details of Compass MAK CRS support.
1148
1149  + Replace very out of date information about binary RPM packages.
1150
1151* Minor translation updates.
1152
1153* (Microsoft Windows version): Now uses PROJ 9.3.0 and ships all of the
1154  ancillary files that PROJ comes with.  Hoping this fixes use of coordinate
1155  system EPSG:3912 failing, which was reported by Peter Mašič but I've not
1156  managed to reproduce.
1157
1158Changes in 1.4.6 (2024-03-07):
1159
1160* cavern:
1161
1162  + Workaround bug in PROJ < 9.3.0 with projected coordinate systems with
1163    northing/easting axis order (such as EPSG:3042) which results in the grid
1164    convergence being wrong by about 90°.  Reported by Patrick Warren on the
1165    mailing list.
1166
1167  + If *declination auto was used before *cs out we would incorrectly calculate
1168    the grid convergence as 0.  We now handle this case correctly by
1169    calculating lazily when we first read a compass reading, and report an
1170    error if the output coordinate system hasn't been set by then.
1171
1172  + When opening a file, cavern has fallback handling if the file isn't found
1173    to help people processing datasets from platforms with case-insensitive
1174    file systems.  Previously cavern would fold the filename to lowercase and
1175    retry.  Now if this fails, it will also try the lower case version but
1176    with the initial character of the leaf in upper case, and finally folding
1177    the whole specified filename to upper case.
1178
1179  + Dynamically pick a suitable level separator character and store it in .3d
1180    file, instead of it being hard-coded to '.' (we still use '.' unless it
1181    has been *set as a "name" character, or for Compass DAT/MAK files unless it
1182    has been used in a station name).  This is a step towards addressing the
1183    situations raised by Thomas Holder in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/4
1184    and https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/5 .
1185
1186  + Compass DAT files:
1187
1188    - The shot flag S is now understood to indicate a splay.
1189
1190    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1191      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1192      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1193      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1194      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1195      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1196
1197    - Surveys which indicate a depth gauge was used for azimuth readings are
1198      now marked as STYLE_DIVING in the 3d file.
1199
1200    - Compass and clino corrections are now implemented for backsights.
1201
1202    - The tape correction in Compass DAT files is now handled correctly.  The
1203      specified value is in feet, but cavern was incorrectly treating it as
1204      being in metres.
1205
1206    - We now handle the newer 15 character "FORMAT:" encoding.  Previously
1207      cavern wouldn't detect when there were backsights in this case.
1208
1209    - We now treat survey date January 1st 1901 as "no date specified" since
1210      this is the date Compass stores in this situation, and it seems very
1211      unlikely to occur in real data.
1212
1213    - In Compass DAT files a dummy zero-length leg from a station to itself is
1214      used to provide a place to specify LRUD for the start or end of a
1215      traverse (depending if dimensions are measured at the from or to
1216      station), and so we no longer issue a warning about equating a station to
1217      itself for DAT files.
1218
1219  + Compass MAK files:
1220
1221    - The base location command is now understood.  This is how Compass
1222      specifies a location to calculate magnetic declination at, and we
1223      now handle this like Survex's native "*declination auto X Y Z".
1224
1225    - Survex uses the specified UTM zone and datum provided the combination can
1226      be expressed as an EPSG code (lack of any EPSG codes for a datum suggests
1227      it's obsolete; lack of a code for a particular datum+zone combination
1228      suggests the zone is outside of the defined area of use of the datum).
1229      Example Compass files we've seen use "North American 1927" outside of
1230      where it's defined for use, presumably because some users fail to change
1231      the datum from Compass' default.  To enable reading such files we return
1232      a PROJ4 string of the form "+proj=utm ..." for "North American 1927" and
1233      "North American 1983" for UTM zones which don't have an EPSG code.
1234      Please let us know if support for additional cases which aren't currently
1235      supported would be useful to you.
1236
1237    - Folder commands are now understood.
1238
1239    - Flag fixed stations as entrances.  Experimentation with Compass shows
1240      this is how it treats them ("distance from entrance" in a .DAT file
1241      counts from 0 at these points).
1242
1243  + We now support reading Compass CLP files.  These are very like DAT files,
1244    except they contain loop-closed data.  You might find this useful if you
1245    want to keep existing stations at the same adjusted positions Compass gave
1246    (for example to be able to draw extensions on an existing drawn-up survey),
1247    or if the original DAT file has been lost but you still have the CLP file.
1248
1249* aven:
1250
1251  + Fix OpenGL scaling on high DPI displays with wxWidgets 3.0. Reported by
1252    Philip Balister.
1253
1254  + Split the filters for DAT and MAK files in the File->Open drop down list.
1255    It seems more likely you'd want to see one type or the other, not both
1256    together.
1257
1258* aven/survexport:
1259
1260  + Fix survey filtering when reading Compass PLT files.
1261
1262  + .json,.kml: Enable export of surface legs.  Currently surface and
1263    underground legs aren't differentiated in these export formats when both
1264    are enabled.
1265
1266  + .3d: The coordinate system is now set.
1267
1268  + .svg: Equated stations now get their correct names in the id attribute
1269    of <circle> tags.  Previously one of the names would be repeated for
1270    all of a set of equated stations.
1271
1272  + .plt:
1273
1274    - Anonymous stations previously resulted in an empty name in the PLT
1275      file.  This isn't explicitly disallowed by the PLT format description,
1276      but Compass' viewer gives an error for such lines.  Now we invent names
1277      by encoding the station coordinates which should be unique.
1278
1279    - The S shot flag is now set for splays, and the P shot flag (hide from
1280      plotting) is set for surface legs (which matches the use suggested in the
1281      Compass docs).
1282
1283* img library:
1284
1285  + Fix bug handling timestamps before 1970.  In C signed integer division
1286    rounds towards zero, which previously resulted in timestamps before 1970
1287    getting rounded to the end of the day instead of the start when converting
1288    them to a count of days so they'd be off by one day unless the time was
1289    midnight.  This affected reading v3-v7 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION
1290    set to 1 and writing v8 format 3d files with IMG_API_VERSION set to 0 (the
1291    default).
1292
1293  + Improve Compass PLT support (many of these are Compass features added
1294    since Survex's support for Compass was originally added):
1295
1296    - Survey dates are now handled fully.  We treat survey date January 1st
1297      1901 as "no date specified" since this is the date Compass stores in this
1298      situation, and it seems very unlikely to occur in real data.
1299
1300    - LRUD data is now translated to img_XSECT and img_XSECT_END.
1301
1302    - We now infer img_SFLAG_ENTRANCE for stations where the "Distance From
1303      Entrance" field is present and zero.
1304
1305    - The shot flag L is now translated to img_FLAG_DUPLICATE.
1306
1307    - The shot flag S is now translated to img_FLAG_SPLAY.  A station at the
1308      far end of a shot flagged S gets img_SFLAG_WALL set since the Compass PLT
1309      format specification says:
1310
1311          The shot is a "splay" shot, which is a shot from a station to the
1312          wall to define the passage shape.
1313
1314    - The shot flag P is now interpreted as marking surface data.  This flag
1315      is described as "Exclude this shot from plotting", but the use suggested
1316      in the Compass docs is for surface data, and legs flagged with it "[do]
1317      not support passage modeling".  Even if it's actually being used for a
1318      different purpose, Survex programs don't show surface legs by default so
1319      the end effect is at least to not plot as intended.
1320
1321    - The d plot command is now supported (previously img failed to parse
1322      PLT files using this command) - it's like D but implies the P shot flag.
1323
1324    - If a PLT file only uses one datum and it is "WGS 1984" then the UTM zone
1325      is converted to the appropriate EPSG code and this is reported as the
1326      coordinate system.  Other datums could be handled, but the mapping to
1327      EPSG code is less simple.  Also it seems Compass supports at least
1328      24 datums but it doesn't document all the strings it uses for them.
1329      Files with multiple datums could be handled too, but we'd need to convert
1330      coordinates to a common coordinate system in the img library, which would
1331      need it to depend on PROJ.  Please let us know if support for more and/or
1332      mixed datums would be useful to you.
1333
1334    - Duplicate img_LABEL items are no longer returned - this used to happen
1335      for stations where more than two shots met within a single survey.
1336
1337    - We now infer img_SFLAG_EXPORTED for any station that appears in more
1338      than one survey in the PLT file.
1339
1340    - We now set flag img_SFLAG_FIXED for any station which is listed as
1341      a fixed point in the PLT file.
1342
1343    - If there's only one non-empty section name in a PLT file and we aren't
1344      filtering by survey, we now report that section name as the title.  If
1345      there are multiple different non-empty section names, we still report the
1346      basename of the file as before.  If we're filtering by survey, we report
1347      the comment for that survey as before.
1348
1349    - Fix bug handling PLT with omitted LRUD.  The format specification
1350      documents that LRUD may be omitted, though it seems Compass never
1351      actually omits it and at least some versions of Compass failed to handle
1352      it being omitted too.
1353
1354* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.2.4 (was 3.1.6).
1355
1356* manual:
1357
1358  + Document Compass support in detail.
1359
1360  + Improve NATO mils example.
1361
1362* INSTALL:
1363
1364  + Add a link to the instructions for building from git.  Reported by Andrew
1365    Northall in https://github.com/ojwb/survex/pull/13
1366
1367  + Document the requirement for a C99 compiler for building from source.
1368    We made this a requirement in 1.4.2, but only noted it in NEWS.
1369
1370* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
1371
1372* Replace references to "libav" with "FFmpeg" since the libav project seems to
1373  now be defunct, and we've always supported using either.
1374
1375* Update build system to eliminate use of obsolete autotools macros and drop
1376  probes for features that we can safely assume now we require a C99 compiler
1377  and workarounds for obsolete platforms.
1378
1379* Fix compilation warnings from newer compiler versions.
1380
1381Changes in 1.4.5 (2023-06-29):
1382
1383* aven: Fix rendering of crosses when drawn as sprites.  Reported by echarlie.
1384
1385* (macOS version): aven: Fix crash in export dialog.  Fixes #133, reported by
1386  rixyane.  Thanks to Wookey for testing.
1387
1388* manual: Expand docs on connecting to Compass data.
1389
1390* Minor translation updates.
1391
1392Changes in 1.4.4 (2023-02-03):
1393
1394* aven: Fix red line in clino background to be grey (this was introduced in
1395  1.4.3 and was a debugging change accidentally left in).
1396
1397* aven: Accept weird .3d files from Therion which have empty components in
1398  station names.  That's not really valid by Survex's definition of station
1399  names, but it's not very helpful to reject such files, so just disable the
1400  checks that were rejecting this.
1401
1402  The result is empty entries in the survey tree, but I don't see what we can
1403  really do that's better than that.
1404
1405  Reported by Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1406
1407* aven: Make it more obvious you can enter a custom scale by adding a "..."
1408  entry to the scale combobox - selecting this clears the value and gives focus
1409  to the combo box text entry. This control has always supported clicking to
1410  enter a custom scale, but there wasn't really any indication that this was
1411  possible before.  Partly addresses #132, reported by Eric C. Landgraf.
1412
1413* aven: Force export window to resize when the export format is changed as
1414  different controls are shown depending on the export format.
1415
1416* aven: Right-align tilt spin control value in print/export dialog to match the
1417  bearing spin control.
1418
1419* aven,survexport: Add ability to export as Survex 3d which is useful as you
1420  can filter to a subset of surveys, filter out splays, convert from other
1421  formats the img library can read, etc.  This feature is a bit rough and ready
1422  currently but please report issues.
1423
1424* dump3d: Add --legs option which converts MOVE and LINE to a single LEG line
1425  per leg with the from and to coordinates.  Tools which parse dump3d output
1426  should find this easier to process as it avoids having to track a "current
1427  position".
1428
1429* Update manual to have a complete list of quantities which *calibrate accepts.
1430  Reported by echarlie
1431
1432* cavern.tst: Fix testsuite to work with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH set.
1433
1434Changes in 1.4.3 (2022-05-17):
1435
1436* aven: Much improved support for HiDPI monitors on all platforms.
1437
1438* aven: When started without a file make sure the window has focus so menu
1439  accelerators and shortcuts work without clicking on the window.
1440
1441* aven,survexport: DXF export now puts splays in a separate layer and uses a
1442  dotted linetype for them.  Patch from echarlie, see #60.
1443
1444* Improved survexport man page to include command line options and a short
1445  note about DXF export.  Patch from echarlie.
1446
1447* Minor translation updates.
1448
1449* (Unix version): aven: Fix handling of EGL-based wxGLCanvas (which wxGTK 3.1.5
1450  has).  Fix a build failure and don't force X11 (as the EGL-based wxGLCanvas
1451  works on Wayland).
1452
1453* (MacOS version): aven: Fix hang on startup without a file.  Fixes #120,
1454  reported by Enrico Fratnik.
1455
1456* (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.1.6 (was 3.0.5).
1457
1458* img library: Support reproducible builds which create .3d files by not
1459  embedding a timestamp if environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.
1460  Requested by Martin Budaj.
1461
1462Changes in 1.4.2 (2022-02-25):
1463
1464* aven: Fix to be compatible with FFmpeg 5.0.
1465
1466* Improve docs for *cs and *declination.
1467
1468* cavern: Fix "*declination auto" not to crash when built with PROJ < 8.1.0.
1469  Bug introduced in 1.4.0.
1470
1471* cavern: For each `*declination auto` command cavern now reports an "info"
1472  message showing the range of calculated declination values and the dates at
1473  which the ends of the range were obtained, and also the grid convergence
1474  (which doesn't vary with time).  Fixes #92, reported by Rob Eavis.
1475
1476* cavern: If any of the N-S, E-W or U-D ranges includes an anonymous station
1477  then also report the range in that direction excluding anonymous stations.
1478  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1479
1480* cavern: The error from a bad `*cs custom` command now highlights the quoted
1481  string properly.
1482
1483* cavern: "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" is now an
1484  "info" rather than a "warning".  It's not really reporting a problem and the
1485  ability to omit the coordinates is a deliberate feature.  It is useful for
1486  the user to know where the "*fix" without coordinates is if they want to
1487  change the survey to be in real coordinates, so an "info" diagnostic is a
1488  good fit.  This also means aven will no longer stay on the log view after
1489  processing a dataset which fixes without coordinates.
1490
1491* cavern: If "*fix" is used twice with no coordinates we no longer say
1492  "FIX command with no coordinates - fixing at (0,0,0)" right before:
1493
1494  error: Already had FIX command with no coordinates for station "x"
1495
1496* cavern: Include errors in Compass .mak files now report the error in the line
1497  where the included filename is actually specified.
1498
1499* cavern.tst: Add test coverage for warnings for *entrance and *export with
1500  a station which doesn't exist otherwise.
1501
1502* aven/survexport: Change JSON export to be valid JSON.  This means the output
1503  has changed incompatibly, but it wasn't valid JSON before which suggests
1504  nobody was actually successfully using it. Fixes #128, reported by Pawczak.
1505
1506* aven.tst: Skip one testcase on macos as it seems to hang, at least when
1507  running on the Continuous Integration system.
1508
1509* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now generated with a much
1510  newer version of Innosetup.  This means Microsoft Windows Vista is now the
1511  minimum supported version but 2000 and XP are both many years out of support
1512  anyway.
1513
1514* (Microsoft Windows version): The coordinate system database for PROJ is
1515  now included so "*cs" now works (broken since 1.4.0).
1516
1517* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1518
1519* Building from source now requires a compiler with support for C99.  C99
1520  seems to be universally supported by compilers now so we don't expect this to
1521  inconvenience anyone.
1522
1523Changes in 1.4.1 (2021-11-08):
1524
1525* This release should work with any PROJ version >= 6.2.0.
1526
1527* cavern.tst: Fix to actually run tests when building outside the source
1528  tree.  Previously files for testcases weren't found, and tests were skipped
1529  with a warning, which lead to 1.4.0 being released with two failing testcase.
1530  Fix to find the files, and make not finding them an error.
1531
1532* cavern.tst: Fix testcases gpxexport and require_fail which were failing
1533  in 1.4.0.
1534
1535* 3dformat.htm: Document that coordinate system can be ESRI:<number>.
1536
1537Changes in 1.4.0 (2021-11-06):
1538
1539* New release series to mark that Survex now uses the new PROJ API, and
1540  requires PROJ >= 7.2.0.  Survex 1.2.x will continue to support PROJ < 8
1541  (and won't support newer PROJ versions).  Fixes #102, reported by Bas
1542  Couwenberg.
1543
1544  Due to these changes, PROJ will now convert directly between coordinate
1545  systems where it knows how to, instead of always converting via WGS84.
1546  This means conversions may now be more accurate in some cases, and you may
1547  notice station coordinates changing - these should be for the better.
1548
1549  Also, the vertical datum is now taken into account automatically, and
1550  terrain data now aligns much better vertically with surveys.  Fixes #56.
1551
1552* aven: Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the compass or clino,
1553  then (while still holding) clicking the right button no longer causes a
1554  wxWidgets assertion to fail.  Reported by echarlie.
1555
1556* img library: Rewrite certain proj strings when reading 3d files for
1557  better compatibility with newer PROJ versions, where use of proj
1558  strings is strongly discouraged.
1559
1560  `+init=epsg:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `EPSG:`.
1561
1562  `+init=esri:` followed by a code number is rewritten to `ESRI:`.
1563
1564  The proj strings which cavern used to put in 3d files for UTM zones and
1565  S-MERC are rewritten to `EPSG:` follow by the appropriate code number.
1566
1567* Also install survex.lang for gtksourceview 4. Fixes #125, reported by Martin
1568  Green.
1569
1570* Fix missing data style in interleaved example in manual.  Reported by
1571  echarlie.
1572
1573* Use jw from docbook-utils instead of sgmltools-lite to process the manual.
1574  The sgmltools-lite homepage says it's no longer being developed, and suggests
1575  docbook-tools (which Debian packages as docbook-utils) as a replacement.
1576
1577* doc/HACKING.htm: Update Debian packages to install
1578
1579* doc/HACKING.htm: Update details of setting up mingw cross-build environment.
1580
1581* Add simple tests for GPX and KML export.
1582
1583* Expand cavern testcase csbad.
1584
1585* cavern.tst: Parse warning/error counts more robustly.  Previously we'd get
1586  confused if the final line just contained an integer, e.g. if we end listing
1587  stations not attached to a fixed point.
1588
1589Changes in 1.2.45 (2021-03-09):
1590
1591* Avoid undefined signed shifts in 3d file handling.  Survex itself is only
1592  affected on big-endian platforms (so most Linux machine, Microsoft Windows,
1593  and current Macs are all OK), but this also affects the img library on all
1594  platforms when used in standalone mode as it is in other programs.  Fixes
1595  #119, reported by Matěj Plch.
1596
1597* aven:
1598
1599  + When reading cavern output for the log window, we need special handling
1600    for the case when a chunk of output ends mid-way through a UTF-8
1601    sequence.  Previously we lost the first byte of the sequence in this
1602    case (and would then show it as an invalid character), but now it is
1603    handled correctly.  In practice, most of the cavern log output is ASCII so
1604    it's quite possible nobody's ever actually hit this.
1605
1606* testsuite:
1607
1608  + Suppress reports of leaks on exit from the LeakSanitiser debugging tool.
1609    We know we don't release all memory explicitly on exit since doing so would
1610    mean extra work for no reason as the OS reclaims all memory when the
1611    process exits.
1612
1613* Convert OLDNEWS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
1614
1615Changes in 1.2.44 (2021-02-10):
1616
1617* aven:
1618
1619  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.5 (was 3.0.4).
1620
1621* cavern:
1622
1623  * Add support for quadrant bearings (e.g. N30E).  Patch from echarlie.
1624
1625  * Report error if angle units are specified for passage dimension.
1626    Previously "*units left degrees" and similar were incorrectly quietly
1627    accepted.  Spotted by echarlie.
1628
1629  * Fix *data with no parameters to keep the current style and reset any state
1630    as documented.  Previously it actually instead ignored any survey data
1631    until the next *data command with parameters.
1632
1633  * Fix minor memory leak in *data.  We leaked a single memory allocation on
1634    "*data default" or an invalid *data command.
1635
1636  * Improve test coverage.
1637
1638* survexport:
1639
1640  * The check for whether a format supported --elevation, --plan, --bearing and
1641    --tilt was inverted.  Reported by echarlie.
1642
1643  * Fix reporting of export errors on Microsoft Windows.  Reported by Matic Di
1644    Batista.
1645
1646* img library: Fix img_open() when used in other programs.  Patch from Thomas
1647  Holder.
1648
1649* configure: Add wx-config-gtk3 to WX_CONFIG search for Arch Linux.  Patch
1650  from Thomas Holder.
1651
1652* Improve documentation of interleaved data.  Most notably, we now document
1653  that a blank line breaks the current traverse.
1654
1655* Fix typo in manual ('cypolar' -> 'cylpolar').  Patch from Wookey, fixes #117.
1656
1657* Chinese translation updates from Qingqing Li.
1658
1659* Russian translation updates from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
1660
1661* French translation updates from Jean-Marc and from Wassil Janssen.
1662
1663* Bulgarian translation updates from Wassil Janssen
1664
1665Changes in 1.2.43 (2020-02-28):
1666
1667* cavern: Update to use v13 of the IGRF model for calculating declinations.
1668  This was issued in December 2019 and should give slightly more accurate
1669  declinations for surveys made since 2010.
1670
1671* aven:
1672
1673  + Fix colouring of "not in loop" when colouring by error.  1.2.42 introduced
1674    a bug where surveys not in a loop were coloured as if they had zero error.
1675    Fixes #111, reported by Bruce Mutton.
1676
1677  + Fix handling of grid in export.  The grid was always getting enabled
1678    (probably since 1.2.8) even for formats which don't support exporting with
1679    a grid.  This resulted in the bounding box being set wrongly for some
1680    formats such as SVG, as reported by Richard Knapp on the mailing list.
1681
1682  + When showing errors processing the survey data we'd previously crash if
1683    cavern incorrectly reported an error as being in a column off the end of
1684    the line - now we just ignore the error column in this case.
1685
1686  + Support colouring by survey style ("normal", "diving", "nosurvey", etc).
1687
1688Changes in 1.2.42 (2019-09-04):
1689
1690* aven:
1691
1692  + Allow colouring by horizontal or vertical error.
1693
1694  + (Unix version): Disable scaling for HiDPI displays with GTK3.  The OpenGL
1695    code needs work before this will work usefully, so just disable for now
1696    (which simulates how things are when using GTK2).
1697
1698  + (Unix version): Fix orientation of notebook tabs when build with wxWidgets
1699    3.1 development versions.  We want horizontal tab orientation, but were
1700    passing a weird flag combination which now results in vertical tab
1701    orientation.
1702
1703* When exporting to a format where we support rotation in the horizontal
1704  plane (such as SVG), the rotation was incorrectly applied to cross section
1705  data (except for the default rotation of zero).  Fixes #108, reported by
1706  Richard Knapp.
1707
1708* Add a section to the manual covering the command line tools, and what you
1709  might still need to use them for.
1710
1711* Fix compiler warning when building from source with GCC 9.
1712
1713* Consistently refer to macOS not OS X - Apple have renamed it yet again.
1714
1715* (macOS version): Revert the workaround for the crash on macOS 10.14.  The
1716  bug we were working around is fixed in git ready for wxWidgets 3.0.5 and
1717  there's a backported fix in the homebrew wxmac 3.0.4-2 package, which is how
1718  we now recommend people install on a Mac.  Closes #101, reported by floho.
1719
1720* (macOS version): Remove buildmacosx.sh script since installing from homebrew
1721  is now the recommended approach.
1722
1723Changes in 1.2.41 (2019-07-10):
1724
1725* aven:
1726
1727  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
1728    of 1.2.39 and 1.2.40.  This is a recurrence of the same issue as affected
1729    1.2.33 - this time I've patched out the unnecessary check in wxWidgets
1730    which causes this problem so it shouldn't recur again.  Reported by
1731    Brian Clipstone.
1732
1733  + (macOS version): Add work around for crash on macOS 10.14 (not fully tested
1734    as I don't have access to a Mac).  Hopefully fixed #101, reported by floho.
1735
1736Changes in 1.2.40 (2019-07-04):
1737
1738* aven: Draw the measuring line ring with an even shape.  Previously the exact
1739  shape of the ring varied slightly depending on the exact coordinates, which
1740  could be visually distracting once you noticed it.
1741
1742* We were casting a function pointer with a bool return type to the same type
1743  but with a void return type.  In practice this probably works fine on most
1744  platforms, but it's undefined behaviour and also gives a compiler warning
1745  with some compilers.
1746
1747* Fix bug introduce in 1.2.39 with where the "esri" data file for PROJ is
1748  installed.
1749
1750Changes in 1.2.39 (2019-06-29):
1751
1752* Support versions 5.x and 6.x of the PROJ library we use for handling
1753  conversions between coordinate systems.  Reported by Bas Couwenberg
1754  in #102, by Richard Knapp in #103 and by Martin Sluka in email.
1755
1756* (Unix and Mac OS versions): When checking if something is a file or if it is
1757  a directory, we no longer treat a symlink as being neither, but instead
1758  return an answer based on what the symlink points to.
1759
1760* aven:
1761
1762  + Improve handling of hidden splay ends.  Previously, hidden splay ends still
1763    served as "targets" for snapping the mouse pointer to, and still got
1764    crosses when crosses were enabled.  We don't have a handy flag for "this is
1765    the outer end of a splay" and computing that on demand isn't so easy to do,
1766    so for now we use the "anonymous station" flag so at least these cases now
1767    behave properly for splays to anonymous stations (which is likely to be
1768    what people with huge numbers of splays from disto-x, etc are using).  This
1769    does mean that anonymous stations on continuation passages will incorrectly
1770    also be off when splays are hidden, but that seems an OK trade-off for now
1771    and a definite improvement over the previous situation.  The snapping of
1772    the mouse pointer was reported by Frank Tully in #105.
1773
1774  + Fix typo in export UI (CVS should be CSV).
1775
1776* Documentation:
1777
1778  + Add CSV to documented list of survexport output formats.
1779
1780  + Fix *declination syntax synopsis - "auto" is a literal string, not a
1781    placeholder.
1782
1783  + Update PROJ project name and website - the name is now "PROJ" (all caps and
1784    no ".4" suffix) and the website is now: https://proj.org/
1785
1786* Install gtksourceview-3.0 language file so .svx files now get syntax
1787  highlighting in gedit and other GtkSourceView-based editors.  Patch
1788  from Philip Withnall.  Fixes #98.
1789
1790* (Microsoft Windows version): The Survex installer doesn't uninstall the old
1791  version when you upgrade, but just overwrites it with the new version.  In
1792  1.2.35 cad3d.exe was replaced with survexport.exe, but a user upgrading from
1793  an older version would still have cad3d.exe from that old version.  We now
1794  remove any old cad3d.exe left over from a previous install in the same
1795  location to avoid confusion.
1796
1797* Add a few more message translations.
1798
1799* Fix warnings when built with a C++11 compiler.
1800
1801Changes in 1.2.38 (2019-03-02):
1802
1803* cavern:
1804
1805  + Deprecate MILS as angular units.  Survex has long support MILS as an alias
1806    for GRADS.  However, this seems to be a bogus definition of a "mil" which
1807    is unique to Survex (except that Therion has since copied it) - there are
1808    several different definitions of a "mil" but they vary from 6000 to 6400 in
1809    a full circle, not 400.  Reported by Andy Edwards.
1810
1811  + Fix segfault for *include "".  This isn't useful, but shouldn't crash.  It
1812    now reports "file not found" instead.
1813
1814  + Use isnan() to check for not-a-number.  This is cleaner, more robust and
1815    more efficient than formatting the number as a string and checking for
1816    "NaN" or "nan" in the result.
1817
1818* Avoid unused variable warning when compiling from source with modern ffmpeg.
1819
1820* Drop support for wxWidgets < 3.0.  3.0.0 was released over 5 years ago and
1821  should be easily available everywhere by now.  I'm no longer easily able to
1822  test with wxWidgets 2.8, and this allows a significant amount of cruft to be
1823  removed.
1824
1825* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fedora have removed gcc from the default build
1826  environment so need to explicitly list it in the BuildRequires tag.  See
1827  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot for more
1828  information.  Patch from James Begley.
1829
1830Changes in 1.2.37 (2018-11-18):
1831
1832* aven:
1833
1834  + Add basic "Colour by Survey" feature.  The colours used aren't currently
1835    controllable.
1836
1837  + Fix export of splays.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1838
1839  + Fix KML export to avoid invalid geometry when a tube intersects itself.
1840    Patch from Robert Jones.
1841
1842  + (Unix version): Fix to work under Wayland by forcing the x11 GDK backend
1843    for now.  This is a workaround until wxWidgets OpenGL support is updated
1844    to work under Wayland.  Reported by Philip Balister.
1845
1846  + Fix warnings about using deprecated functions when building movie export
1847    code using FFmpeg 4.0.
1848
1849* cavern:
1850
1851  + Compass MAK files: Handle fixed point coordinates in feet - previously the
1852    units were ignored and the coordinates assumed to be in metres.
1853
1854  + Previously the first byte in a MAK file was ignored.  Typically MAK files
1855    start with a comment, and since cavern currently ignores lines that start
1856    with characters it doesn't understand the meaning of, this bug would often
1857    go unnoticed.
1858
1859* survexport:
1860
1861  + Fix exporting of passages, walls and cross-sections by running the code
1862    aven uses to decide how much to rotate each cross-section.  Previously all
1863    cross-sections were aligned West-East.  Reported by Robert Jones.
1864
1865  + Default to .pos output if the program name is 3dtopos, and install a second
1866    copy (or hardlink under Unix) as 3dtopos.  This provides compatibility with
1867    current releases of Tunnel.  Reported by Becka Lawson, Wookey and
1868    Stephen Crabtree.
1869
1870* Fix some German translations.  Patch from Thomas Holder.
1871
1872* (MacOS X version): Fix aven-create-app to not delete converted icons.
1873  Typo spotted by Robert Jones.
1874
1875* Improve documentation for *team.  Document the requirement to quote names
1876  unless a person is identified by just one name.  Document that the roles are
1877  optional, as that information may not have been recorded, and to align with
1878  therion's team command.
1879
1880Changes in 1.2.36 (2018-07-18):
1881
1882* aven:
1883
1884  + Add support for exporting as a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
1885
1886  + Support exporting KML with altitude mode "clamp to ground".  In this mode,
1887    the altitude in the data is ignored and it's rendered on the surface of the
1888    terrain.  This is useful if your KML viewer renders the terrain as opaque
1889    so underground data isn't visible.  Rendering cave passages on the surface
1890    isn't great, but is better than not being able to see them at all.  This
1891    option may also be helpful if you want to see where to look on the surface
1892    for new entrances.
1893
1894  + Highlight surveys with a white loop as the mouse is moved over them in
1895    the survey tree.  This is akin to how we highlight a station with a
1896    white ring, and allows restoring "double-click survey in tree to zoom"
1897    which temporarily required a quadruple-click in 1.2.35.
1898
1899  + Only show checkboxes in the survey tree for surveys not stations.
1900
1901  + Fix wxWidgets assertion if the user tried to select additional surveys
1902    to show via the right-click menu.
1903
1904  + Fix multiple survey filtering when both a parent and child survey are
1905    selected.  In this case it makes most sense to show all child surveys of
1906    the parent, but we actually showed a slightly arbitrary subset of the
1907    child surveys of the parent.
1908
1909  + The checkbox area in the survey tree is now included in the area which
1910    is considered by mouse-over updates such as highlighting the station or
1911    survey.
1912
1913  + Fix display of double quotes in cavern log window (they were being replaced
1914    with control character 0x16 due to a typo in the code).
1915
1916  + Add shortcuts to buttons in cavern log window.
1917
1918  + Eliminate use of gluErrorString() function which eliminates some
1919    deprecation warnings when building on macOS.
1920
1921  + Reject multiple --survey command line options for now (only the last has
1922    been used for a long time, but now we actually support multiple survey
1923    filtering this matters more).
1924
1925* survexport:
1926
1927  + Report a useful error when trying to convert a .3d file without coordinate
1928    system information to GPS.  Reported by Mark Shinwell.
1929
1930  + Handle multiple redundant --survey command line options correctly.
1931
1932* dump3d: Report station flag "WALL", which was added in 1.2.7.
1933
1934* Minor translation updates.
1935
1936* Update manual for Microsoft Windows changes.
1937
1938* tests/: Add test coverage for warnings about suspect readings
1939
1940* Fix warning when compiling with clang.
1941
1942Changes in 1.2.35 (2018-07-03):
1943
1944* aven:
1945
1946  + Viewing can now be restricted to multiple surveys.  Use the right-button
1947    menu on a survey in the survey tree and select "Show" to enable checkboxes
1948    for that survey and all its siblings.  Only the selected surveys are shown
1949    on screen, printed and exported.
1950
1951  + Don't open a survey when its name is double clicked.  This was happening
1952    due to code added to "allow double-clicking to work on wxMSW >= 2.8.11".
1953    However, reverting that change still seems to allow double-clicking to work
1954    on both wxMSW and wxGTK, but fixes the unwanted additional opening of the
1955    survey.
1956
1957  + Pick initial survey scaling based on whichever of the window width or
1958    height gives the smaller scale.  Previously we always used the window
1959    width, which can result in parts of the cave being outside the initial
1960    view.  Reported by Wookey.
1961
1962  + Drop ability to specify a PROJ string in the export dialog.  This was added
1963    to allow exporting to formats such as GPX before we added support for
1964    specifying the projection in .svx files, and that support is now mature.
1965
1966  + DXF export now uses 2 decimal places (was 6) for the bounding box, for
1967    consistency with the precision used for coordinates.
1968
1969  + Fix handling of surface flag during export.  In formats which discriminate,
1970    legs could previously have got assigned the wrong status.
1971
1972  + Fix bug which probably prevented aven starting when OpenGL double buffering
1973    is unavailable.  This is unlikely to affect any common configurations.
1974
1975  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix loading of 3d files with non-ASCII
1976    filenames.  Issue reported by Matic.
1977
1978  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix incorrect display of some toolbar icons.
1979    Probably broken since 1.2.17.
1980
1981* survexport: New command-line export program which uses aven's export code.
1982  Replaces 3dtopos, cad3d and findentrances, since it can do all that these
1983  tools could do, plus much more.
1984
1985* Merge more Spanish i18n updates from Evaristo Quiroga.
1986
1987* Minor updates to various other translations.
1988
1989* img library:
1990
1991  + Now supports reading from and writing to an existing FILE*.
1992
1993  + Improve API documentation.
1994
1995* (Microsoft Windows version): Fix packaging to include wxWidgets translation
1996  files like it was supposed to, which fixes a few missing translations.  This
1997  was probably broken by changes in 1.2.8.  Reported by Evaristo Quiroga.
1998
1999* (Microsoft Windows version): Drop two options from explorer bindings.
2000  "Convert to DXF" and "Convert for hand plotting" have both been supported via
2001  aven for a while, and that's a more useful way to access them as you can
2002  control what gets exported.
2003
2004Changes in 1.2.34 (2018-03-24):
2005
2006* aven:
2007
2008  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error on startup in the pre-built version
2009    of 1.2.33.
2010
2011  + (Microsoft Windows version): Now using wxWidgets 3.0.4 (was 3.0.2).
2012
2013Changes in 1.2.33 (2018-03-22):
2014
2015* aven:
2016
2017  + Reliably disable scale bar in perspective view.  This is supposed to happen
2018    (because the scale across the screen varies in perspective view) but
2019    actually the scale bar stayed around until an update was forced for another
2020    reason.  Spotted thanks to Pedro Silva Pinto.
2021
2022  + Make "no date"/"not in loop" colour grey.  The white was a bit bright and
2023    made it harder to see the legs that had colours.  The grey now used is
2024    within the brightness range of the other colours.  Fixes #94, reported by
2025    Erin Lynch.
2026
2027  + Fix KML export - exporting both survey legs and station names resulted in a
2028    malformed KML file.  This bug was introduced in 1.2.30 when support for
2029    exporting passages and walls was added.  Reported by Erin Lynch in #90.
2030
2031  + Consistently use 2 decimal places for altitude in KML output.  Some places
2032    used 8 decimal places which is appropriate for lat and long, but clearly
2033    overkill for an altitude in metres and increases the file size
2034    unnecessarily.
2035
2036  + Right-align bearing widget in print/export dialog.  The change to allow the
2037    value to wrap round from 360 to 0 in 1.2.27 inadvertently made this control
2038    left-aligned (due to incorrect wxWidgets documentation of the default style
2039    for this control).
2040
2041  + (Unix version): Work around wxWidgets bug so that custom cursors work
2042    under GTK3.
2043
2044  + (Unix version): Update GTK version reporting - report GTK3, and don't
2045    bother to report subversions of GTK2 (it seems to be fairly arbitrary
2046    which subversions wxWidgets defines constants for).
2047
2048  + Update code to work without warnings when using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (the
2049    current development version).
2050
2051  + Make movie export code compatible with upcoming FFmpeg 3.5 release.
2052    It should still work with the older versions that worked before this
2053    change.  Reported by James Cowgill in https://bugs.debian.org/888334
2054
2055* cavern:
2056
2057  + Warn about 2 digit years.  We can't change the assumption that these are
2058    19xx without risking breaking existing datasets, but the further we get
2059    into this century, the more likely such an assumption is to catch someone
2060    out.  The warning can easily be quashed by explicitly adding the assumed
2061    "19".
2062
2063* The Spanish translation is now up to date once more, thanks to updates from
2064  Evaristo Quiroga.
2065
2066* Merge French translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2067
2068* Fix transposed German Northing and Easting labels.  Fixes #95, reported by
2069  milosch.
2070
2071* Fill in missing translations of "Easting", "Northing", "E" and "N" for
2072  Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Russian based on other existing
2073  translated messages.
2074
2075* Align .pos file headings better with columns of coordinates below for
2076  Indonesian and Polish.
2077
2078* Fix handling of the message string "error" before messages loaded.  If
2079  there's an error loading messages, we need this message to report it.
2080  Reported by Martin Sluka.
2081
2082* Fix a few compiler warnings.
2083
2084* img library: Fix extracting leaf survey name for survey title.  When there
2085  are three or more levels of survey, we were taking everything after the first
2086  dot rather than everything after the last dot.
2087
2088* Fix problems with testsuite on macOS:
2089
2090  + cavern.tst: Skip "ONELEG" testcase on case-insensitive filing systems
2091    - this test isn't meaningful unless the filing system is case-sensitive,
2092    but happens to fail if it isn't.
2093
2094  + cavern.tst: Workaround limitations of Apple's sed.
2095
2096  + aven.tst: Fix not to hang on macOS.
2097
2098  + smoke.tst: Remove aven testcases which duplicate those in aven.tst.
2099
2100* Clean up handling of support files in relocatable installs - this is now
2101  detected at run time on macOS.
2102
2103* Split out macOS Aven.app creation into a make rule so it can be easily used
2104  by the homebrew formula.
2105
2106* buildmacosx.sh:
2107
2108  + Fix when WX_CONFIG not specified - this was giving a confusing error like:
2109    ./buildmacosx.sh: line 163: --cc: command not found
2110
2111  + Use wxWidgets 3.0.4.
2112
2113* Stop checking wx-config --ldflags as this option was removed in wxWidgets 2.6
2114  and we currently require 2.8 or newer.
2115
2116Changes in 1.2.32 (2017-07-08):
2117
2118* aven:
2119
2120  + Make splays on printouts a darker shade of grey.  Reported by Erin Lynch
2121    and Anthony Day.
2122
2123  + In export formats which include 3 dimensions (DXF, PLT, GPX, KML, JSON,
2124    POS), the value in the Z dimension was negated.  Bug introduced by fixes
2125    for export of rotated plans and tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2126    Erin Lynch in #89.
2127
2128  + Ignore viewing angles for export formats which work in 3D.  When the
2129    rotation and tilt controls are hidden in the export dialog we were still
2130    using their values to transform the data, so if you set them with for one
2131    export format which support them, then switched to an export format which
2132    doesn't, you'd get bogus coordinates in the exported file.  Bug probably
2133    introduced in 1.2.27 by fixes for exports of rotated plans and tilted
2134    elevations.
2135
2136  + Fix exporting to skencil and Survex .pos formats.  When aven's export to
2137    .pos was added in 1.2.19, the ordering didn't match up and since then .pos
2138    export has produced skencil files and vice versa.
2139
2140  + Don't leave terrain on if loading terrain data fails.  Previously if you
2141    clicked the terrain icon (or via the menu) with no terrain loaded, but no
2142    terrain got loaded (e.g. because the survey data lacks an explicit
2143    coordinate system, or because the file failed to load, or because you
2144    cancelled the dialog) then the terrain icon/menu item was still changed to
2145    "on".
2146
2147  + Disable texturing while drawing terrain.  Previously the terrain got a bit
2148    darker when "Textured Walls" were enabled.
2149
2150  + Force a refresh when "Textured Walls" are enabled or disabled.  Previously
2151    the display wouldn't update right away.
2152
2153* Manual:
2154
2155  + Document how to specify fixed point altitude in feet.
2156
2157  + Explain why *fix warns about unused fixed points
2158
2159* Building from source now requires a compiler with decent support for C++11.
2160  If you're using GCC, then GCC 4.7 should suffice.  This should not be an
2161  onerous requirement - e.g. Debian wheezy and Ubuntu trusty both have a recent
2162  enough GCC.  If special options are needed, these should get probed for and
2163  automatically.  Fixes building 1.2.31 with GCC < 6, reported by Wookey.
2164
2165Changes in 1.2.31 (2017-07-01):
2166
2167* aven:
2168
2169  + Use superscript 'g' symbol instead of word 'grads' in status bar.  This
2170    conserves the limited space available, and we already do this in the
2171    compass and clino indicators so it's more consistent too.
2172
2173  + Show one decimal place on measure line bearing.  Pointed out by Benedikt
2174    Hallinger on the therion list, though I'm sure this has been asked for
2175    before by others.
2176
2177  + Show gradient of the measuring line when both ends are stations.
2178
2179  + Allow selection of text in cavern log window.  Selection was disabled in
2180    1.2.28 because it seemed you couldn't actually copy selected text to the
2181    clipboard, but retesting this now actually works fine for me, both with
2182    current git master with the change reverted, and with code just before the
2183    original change.
2184
2185  + More robust parsing of cavern output (cleanly handle context highlighting
2186    which extends beyond the end of the line).
2187
2188  + Allow showing duplicate legs as dashed lines or hiding them entirely,
2189    with dashed now being the default.  Implemented by Patrick Warren.
2190
2191  + Also allow "Dashed" for splays and "Faded" for duplicate legs.
2192
2193  + Splay legs in surface data are also shown faded.
2194
2195  + Check environment variables VISUAL and EDITOR when looking for editor to
2196    use when a warning or error is clicked on in the cavern log window.  The
2197    specified editor may have a GUI or need to run in a terminal, so we have to
2198    special-case each editor supported, and that means we can pass extra
2199    options needed to position the cursor on the appropriate line/column.
2200    Currently these editors are supported: gvim, nvim, vim, gedit, pluma,
2201    emacs, nano, jed, kate.  Suggested by Wookey.
2202
2203  + Fix handling of non-square terrain data files - the X and Y dimensions were
2204    swapped.  Reported by detrito.
2205
2206  + Improve parsing of DEM data with .hdr file.  Use documented defaults for
2207    more values, and where we only support a subset of values (or a particular
2208    value) check for unsupported values in more cases.
2209
2210  + When colouring by depth, fix colouring and texturing of polygons which
2211    cross depth bands.  The previous problems were most obvious with high
2212    chambers and long legs down deep pitches, especially in for surveys without
2213    much vertical range.
2214
2215  + Support for drawing blobs using point sprites was added in 1.2.28,
2216    but caching that this worked wasn't hooked up properly so the test to
2217    see if this worked would happen at the start of each run.  This is now
2218    cached as intended which should reduce start up time a little when blobs
2219    are drawn in this way.
2220
2221  + Fix drawing of crosses with lines.  This is a fall-back case which is
2222    rarely used as most OpenGL setups will handle a better method, but it was
2223    resulting in crosses with a four-pixel square in the centre - now the
2224    centre should be a single pixel.
2225
2226* cavern:
2227
2228  + Allow *data with no arguments to reset the current style - useful for
2229    entering passage data where there are side passages.
2230
2231  + Fix hang processing file without newline at end.  This bug was introduced
2232    by changes in 1.2.28.  Reported by Mark Brown.
2233
2234  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Build with newer version of
2235    PROJ library which fixes buggy handling of *fix with lat-long coordinates.
2236    Also add a testcase to the testsuite to alert users building for themselves
2237    with an affected PROJ version on any platform.  Reported by Ross Davidson.
2238
2239  + Fix cavern to handle Compass .DAT with no survey team.  Previously this
2240    resulted in the bogus error: Expecting numeric field, found "FROM"
2241    Reported by Erin Lynch.
2242
2243  + Handle UTF-8 "BOM" at start of .svx files.  Unicode doesn't recommend its
2244    use, but Microsoft stuff seems to like to create files with it in, and the
2245    error cavern currently reports for such files is very confusing, so it
2246    seems best to just handle it.  Reported by Rob Eavis.
2247
2248  + Change a couple of messages to use double quotes for consistency with all
2249    other messages.
2250
2251* extend:
2252
2253  + Now runs a bit faster.
2254
2255  + Splays are now carried over the extended survey.  The current handling
2256    is simplistic, but should do a good enough job to be more useful than
2257    discarding splays.  The splays at each station are all rotated together
2258    based on the bearing between the stations either side of the current one
2259    along the first path extended through that station.  This nicely handles
2260    dead ends and the situation at the top or bottom of a pitch, and should
2261    tend to pick an angle close to the passage orientation along a traverse.
2262    It's weakest at junctions.  Feedback (especially examples which could
2263    be handled better) most welcome.
2264
2265* French translation is now up to date again, thanks to Jean-Marc.
2266
2267* Remove erroneous menu shortcut markers from Polish translations.
2268
2269* Fill in some missing translations in several languages by using message
2270  translations from therion.
2271
2272* Add note to *fix documentation to clarify the coordinate order with *cs
2273  long-lat.  Issue raised by Ross Davidson.
2274
2275* Fix errors in documentation of *units: "DEG" should be "DEGS", and
2276  "MINUTES" has been supported for ages but wasn't documented.  Reported by
2277  Footleg.
2278
2279* Fix a few typos in the documentation.
2280
2281* Fix compilation warning with recent GCC.
2282
2283Changes in 1.2.30 (2016-10-03):
2284
2285* aven:
2286
2287  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix crash when trying to print or export
2288    (probably introduced in 1.2.28).  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2289
2290  + Report error if terrain file contains no terrain data in area of survey.
2291    Suggested by detrito.
2292
2293  + Errors when writing an export file were reported with the wrong filename
2294    - the .3d file, not the filename we were trying to write to.
2295
2296  + Export to KML now supports exporting passages, walls and cross-sections.
2297    Addresses the remainder of ticket #4.
2298
2299* Add man page for dump3d.
2300
2301Changes in 1.2.29 (2016-09-27):
2302
2303* aven:
2304
2305  + Fix SVG output with non-ASCII characters (the charset in the SVG file
2306    is now set to UTF-8 not ISO-8859-1).
2307
2308  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix error dialog on startup in pre-built
2309    version.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
2310
2311* Manual: Add link to TerrainData wiki page.  Omission highlighted by Erin
2312  Lynch and "detrito".
2313
2314* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav and with older versions, broken by changes
2315  in 1.2.28.  Reported by James Begley.
2316
2317Changes in 1.2.28 (2016-09-24):
2318
2319* cavern:
2320
2321  + Show the contents of the line after error and warning messages while
2322    processing survey data, and indicate the region of the line in many cases
2323    in the same style that compilers such as GCC and clang use (using the
2324    column number we already have, plus new width information).  Based on a
2325    patch from Mateusz Golicz.
2326
2327  + Add column and width information for many more error and warning messages.
2328
2329  + Fix column for "Separator in survey name" warning.
2330
2331  + Improve warnings when using a backclino with range 0-180 degrees (reusing
2332    the same machinery we already have for a forward clino with range 0-180
2333    degrees).
2334
2335* aven:
2336
2337  + Include LRUD in printout/export of extended elevations, broken by
2338    improvements to export of tilted elevations in 1.2.27.  Reported by Anthony
2339    Day.
2340
2341  + Name <trk> tags in GPX output, so Garmin GPS units name the imported track
2342    usefully.  Reported by Anthony Day.
2343
2344  + Remember scale from previous print or export operation in the same run of
2345    aven.  Suggested by Stuart Bennett.
2346
2347  + Convert range indication below shown line to a highlight on that region
2348    of the line in cavern log window.
2349
2350  + Fix colouring of error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2351
2352  + Fix click on error/warning without column in cavern log window.
2353
2354  + Fix highlight of translations of "error" or "warning" containing non-ASCII
2355    characters.  This fix for this only works with a Unicode build of
2356    wxWidgets, but as of wxWidgets 3.0, all builds are Unicode, so this
2357    shouldn't be much of a problem as wxWidgets 2.x is close to obsolete now.
2358    Reported by Mateusz Golicz.
2359
2360  + Disable selection of text in cavern log window - you can't currently copy
2361    it to the clipboard, so until that's implemented it seems better to disable
2362    the ability to select it.  Reported by Wookey.
2363
2364  + Avoid special "1000" scale entry when exporting.
2365
2366  + Show 1 page when "One Page" selected.
2367
2368  + Reload processed data when restricting view.  Fixes failure when
2369    restricting view on data just processed via aven.  Spotted by Andrew
2370    Atkinson and myself.
2371
2372  + Don't hide blobs and crosses behind terrain.  Reported by Jenny Black.
2373
2374  + Fix rendering of crosses using point sprites.  The texture being used was
2375    misaligned relative to the image used for the visual fidelity check, so the
2376    check always failed and point sprites would never be used.  Where point
2377    sprites are supported, they're probably the fastest option - on my netbook
2378    this change improves FPS by ~6 fold when displaying crosses for a large
2379    survey.
2380
2381  + Support drawing blobs using point sprites.  About 5 times faster than using
2382    lines on my netbook.
2383
2384  + Recheck how best to draw crosses and blobs on the first run after Survex
2385    is upgraded (or downgraded) as the rendering code may have changed (we
2386    already recheck when the OpenGL hardware or driver changes).
2387
2388  + Change "MPEG" export to be MPEG4 (.mp4) rather than MPEG1 (.mpg).
2389    MPEG4 produces smaller output of higher quality, and should be widely
2390    supported these days.  And I can't get the MPEG1 output to work without
2391    buffer underflows, resulting in a file which doesn't play without
2392    glitches.
2393
2394  + Add OGG video to the list of formats - it's more compact than the others
2395    we currently list, though slower to write.
2396
2397  + Fix export to movie formats for which libav/FFmpeg needs to seek the file
2398    being written.  This was broken by changes in 1.2.27.
2399
2400  + Overhaul movie export for the current FFmpeg API, fixing deprecation
2401    warnings when building against a recent version.
2402
2403  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix corrupted exported movie files.  1.2.27
2404    changed the movie export code to allow writing to files with non-ASCII
2405    characters in the names, but the new code failed to open the file in binary
2406    mode, leading to corrupt output.  Fixes #81, reported by Erin Lynch.
2407
2408  * (Microsoft Windows version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for
2409    movie export.
2410
2411  * (Mac OS X version): Pre-built version now uses FFmpeg 3.1.3 for movie
2412    export.
2413
2414* Fix to build without FFmpeg/libav, broken by changes in 1.2.27.  Reported by
2415  James Begley.
2416
2417* The Polish translation is now very close to being complete, thanks to a
2418  substantial update from Mateusz Golicz.
2419
2420* Merge catalan translation updates from Adolfo Jayme.
2421
2422* (Microsoft Windows version): Map LANG_CHINESE to zh_CN not zh so Chinese
2423  messages get used automatically.
2424
2425* cavern.tst: Remove random : from after ] - dash ignores the extra character,
2426  but it causes this test to fail if /bin/sh is a different shell (e.g. bash).
2427
2428* cavern.tst: Add expected output for more testcases.
2429
2430* Remove unwanted execute bit from some testcase data.
2431
2432* Use https for more URLs which support it.
2433
2434Changes in 1.2.27 (2016-06-06):
2435
2436* aven:
2437
2438  + Right click on a survey in the survey tree now gives a pop-up menu
2439    with "Hide others", which restricts the view to just that survey
2440    and any subsurveys.  Right click on the root of the survey tree
2441    gives a menu with "Show all" to undo any restriction in effect.
2442    (Currently these are implemented by reloading the file and using
2443    the same machinery as the --survey= command line option, but that will
2444    probably change in the future).
2445
2446  + If there's a sub-survey restriction (from the --survey= command line
2447    option or the new UI described above) it is now shown in brackets after
2448    the survey tree root.
2449
2450  + When reloading a survey, preserve the current view position (previously
2451    the view was recentred).
2452
2453  + When reloading a survey, actually preserve the current scale factor
2454    (this was meant to happen, but the adjustment was applied in the
2455    wrong direction).
2456
2457  + New "File->Extended Elevation..." menu item provides a way to generate
2458    extended elevations for simple cases without having to use the command
2459    line.  Suggested by Fleur Loveridge.
2460
2461  + Don't process key presses if accompanied by an unexpected modifier key.
2462    In particular, this means that aven no longer interferes with Alt+<function
2463    key> (which is typically handled by the desktop) and Alt+<letter> (which is
2464    typically a menu short cut).  Reported by Владимир Георгиев.
2465
2466  + Reduce file loading time by ~5%.  The station name compare function was
2467    something of a hot spot, and optimising it yielded a nice improvement.
2468
2469  + Allow splay legs to be disabled in when printing and exporting.  Mostly
2470    addresses #60.
2471
2472  + SVG export now shows splay legs thinner and in grey.  See #60.
2473
2474  + Fix export of rotated plans and tilted elevations - previously plans were
2475    always aligned with North up, and elevations which weren't exactly side on
2476    were exported as plans.  Reported by Stuart Bennett.
2477
2478  + Fix offset bounding box for exported elevations.
2479
2480  + In print/export dialog the bearing value now wraps if you scroll up past
2481    360 or down past 0.
2482
2483  + Fix greying out of LRUD-based controls in the print/export dialog when the
2484    view is tilted (i.e. not plan or elevation).  This stopped working in
2485    1.2.18 when the pan and tilt spin controls were changed from integer- to
2486    real-valued ones.
2487
2488  + Printouts now show LRUD as pale grey arrows from the station they are
2489    measured from.  Based on patch from Michael Sargent.  Closes #65.
2490
2491  + Take LRUD into account for printout size.  Fixes #72, reported by Erin
2492    Lynch.
2493
2494  + Update movie export code to work with latest version of FFmpeg.
2495
2496  + Make "Show Log" a toggle, so you can click on the button to take a look at
2497    the log, and a second click returns you to the survey view.
2498
2499  + (Microsoft Windows version): Open the font file in binary mode - it looks
2500    like we were lucky and the font file (or at least its current version)
2501    would have loaded OK in text mode despite being binary data.
2502
2503  + (Microsoft Windows version): Exporting to files with non-ASCII filenames
2504    should now work.
2505
2506* cavern:
2507
2508  + Allow tape or backtape to be omitted.  Reported by Erin Lynch.
2509
2510  + Grid convergence is now corrected for when using automatically
2511    calculated declinations (*declination auto <X> <Y> <Z>).  Requested
2512    by Mateusz Golicz on the mailing list.
2513
2514  + Clear any cached calculated declination upon another *declination auto
2515    with different coordinates.  Previously if the date stayed the same,
2516    a previously cached declination for the old coordinates was used.
2517
2518  + Fix check for end of version number array in *require.  We would check up
2519    to 12 version components, the last 9 being bogus.  In practice, *require is
2520    only likely to be used with up to three components, so this wouldn't be an
2521    issue.
2522
2523  + *begin with an invalid prefix could cause a crash in some cases.  Fixed
2524    by patch from Colin Watson.
2525
2526  + Report column locations for errors to do with readings.
2527
2528* Merge translation updates from Jean-Marc.
2529
2530* img library: Better document which members can be set when writing.
2531  Highlighted by email query about use of img API from Владимир Георгиев.
2532
2533* Document how *declination interacts with *calibrate declination if both are
2534  used in the same dataset.
2535
2536* doc/3dformat.htm: Update details of how changes to the current label buffer
2537  are encoded to reflect changes in v8.  Reported by Angus Sawyer.
2538
2539* Use docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man to generated Unix man pages
2540  from SGML source.  The latter seems to be no longer actively maintained, and
2541  docbook2man now does a similarly good job.
2542
2543* Use https for survex.com links, and for other sites which support it.
2544
2545Changes in 1.2.26 (2016-01-07):
2546
2547* aven:
2548
2549  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix to be able to process .svx files with
2550    cavern again.
2551
2552* (Microsoft Windows version): Simplify upgrading process with innosetup
2553  installer - if Survex is already installed, we now just install to the same
2554  location and use the same start menu folder.
2555
2556* (Linux version): survex.spec: Update for filetype metadata change in 1.2.25.
2557  Fixes #79, reported by James Begley.
2558
2559* (Linux version): survex.spec: Fix to work with RPM 4.13.  Fixes #79, reported
2560  by James Begley.
2561
2562Changes in 1.2.25 (2016-01-05):
2563
2564* aven:
2565
2566  + Drop broken code which attempts to fix 2D pitches.  Fixes #73, reported by
2567    Erin Lynch.  #76 tracks the issue the removed code was trying (but failing)
2568    to address.
2569
2570  + When animating, don't try to update station info based on mouse movement
2571    over the survey tree.
2572
2573  + Further improve code to handle cavern subprocess in aven.
2574
2575  + Fix jump to error for filenames containing colons when the error location
2576    doesn't have a column number.  Bug noted by Jenny Black.
2577
2578  + If we encounter bad UTF-8 in cavern output, replace it with a red and white
2579    ? in a diamond (previously we gave up showing output at the first bad
2580    sequence).  This can happen if you process a .svx file which isn't UTF-8
2581    encoded.
2582
2583  + (Unix version): Don't try to set the terminal window title when opening an
2584    editor from the cavern log window - gnome-terminal no longer supports this,
2585    and there doesn't seem to be a portable option for specifying the title for
2586    terminals which do still support this.
2587
2588  + (Microsoft Windows version): Also quote for cmd.exe so that paths with
2589    spaces in work reliably.  Reported by Marco Cotto.
2590
2591* cavern:
2592
2593  + Improve error for mismatched fore/back-sight plumbs, reported by Andy
2594    Edwards (see #78).
2595
2596  + Fix to use correct sd for backcompass.  We were using zero instead, the
2597    most obvious effect of which was that the threshold for warning about
2598    differing COMPASS and BACKCOMPASS was about 71% of what it should have
2599    been, so we were warning in more cases than we should have been.
2600
2601  + Implement support for specifying a length on backsights - if you're using
2602    something like a disto-x, you'll get a distance reading for the backsight
2603    too.  Fixes #71, reported by Erin Lynch.
2604
2605  + Make line counting more robust to mixed line ends.  Noticed in example file
2606    from Pete Smart (see #69).
2607
2608* extend: New --show-breaks option which adds a leg flagged as surface survey
2609  between each points at which a loop has been broken.  Suggested by Jenny
2610  Black.
2611
2612* (Unix version): Update filetype metadata to work with modern desktops.
2613
2614* Fix incorrect reporting of errors reading and writing processed survey data.
2615  Since 1.2.8, the error strings corresponding to IMG_CANTOPENOUT,
2616  IMG_BADFORMAT and IMG_DIRECTORY have been mixed up (this doesn't affect
2617  external programs using the img library, only Survex).  Reported by Jenny
2618  Black.
2619
2620* Add missing options to extend man page and --help output.  Noted by Jenny
2621  Black.
2622
2623* Document Document Ctrl+cursor keys for rotating and tilting in aven man page.
2624
2625* Fix broken SGML markup in manual.
2626
2627* Fix typo in manual reported by Jenny Black.
2628
2629* Update vim syntax file for newer commands, etc.
2630
2631* Minor translation updates.  Thanks to Piotr Strębski and Jean-Marc.
2632
2633* Fix to compile with FFmpeg 2.9.  Reported by Andreas Cadhalpun in
2634  https://bugs.debian.org/803863
2635
2636* Stop maintaining ChangeLog files.  They make merging patches harder, and stop
2637  'git cherry-pick' from working as it should.  The git repo history should be
2638  sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2639
2640* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer requires admin privileges on Vista
2641  and later and OS versions older than Vista are past end of life, so drop code
2642  which tries to set up the registry differently depending if we have admin
2643  privileges or not.
2644
2645Changes in 1.2.24 (2015-09-23):
2646
2647* aven:
2648
2649  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix the cavern log window.  Reported by Brian
2650    Clipstone.
2651
2652  + (Microsoft Windows version): Add workaround to avoid breakage in Therion.
2653    Reported by Jenny Black.
2654
2655  + If wx was built with thread support, aven now runs cavern from a separate
2656    thread, which works much better under wxMSW (where we can't use select),
2657    and also seems a bit smoother on Linux.
2658
2659  + Fix handling of encoding of filenames when the operating system has no
2660    locale installed corresponding to the language selected for Survex's
2661    messages.
2662
2663  + Undo accidentally committed debugging code which was sending message to
2664    the terminal in 1.2.23.
2665
2666* (Linux version): configure now looks first for wx-config-3.0, which Fedora's
2667  wx3 packages have.  Reported by James Begley.
2668
2669* Indonesian translation fully up to date again.
2670
2671* Manual: Document anonymous stations, based on the text from NEWS.  Reported
2672  by Wookey.
2673
2674Changes in 1.2.23 (2015-09-06):
2675
2676* aven:
2677
2678  + Updating the cavern log window is now much smoother, especially on slower
2679    machines.
2680
2681  + Show "busy" mouse cursor while processing survey data.
2682
2683  + Fix an assertion if you try to start processing a survex file while one is
2684    already being processed.
2685
2686  + Processing a .svx file with an error now still adds it to the file history.
2687    Reported by Martin Green.
2688
2689  + Fix the orientation of the starting end of tubes.
2690
2691* cavern:
2692
2693  + New *ref command to allow specifying an external reference (e.g. where to
2694    find the original survey notes).
2695
2696  + Drop support for showing percentage progress in cavern.  It's confusing in
2697    a multiple-file dataset as it shows progress in the current file so jumps
2698    around.  It also slows down processing, and on a slow machine you'd don't
2699    want that, while on a fast machine processing isn't slow enough for the
2700    progress display to be useful.
2701
2702* French translation is now completely up to date, thanks to Michel Bovey.
2703
2704* Bundle proj's EPSG and ESRI code lists in the installers for MS Windows and
2705  OS X so that things like "*cs EPSG:29903" work.  Reported by Graham Mullan.
2706
2707* (Microsoft Windows version): Process survey data with aven rather than
2708  running cavern.
2709
2710* (Microsoft Windows version): Installer built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 (recent
2711  releases have been built with 5.5.3) to see if that solves Ray Duffy's
2712  reported issue with not having file associations for .svx files created.
2713
2714Changes in 1.2.22 (2015-08-17):
2715
2716* aven:
2717
2718  + Ensure that the window has a depth buffer.  Whether it does by default
2719    seems to vary depending on OS and maybe graphics card.  Fixes #55 (terrain
2720    is no longer visible through itself), and also the rendering of passage
2721    tubes.  Thanks to Martin Green for pointing me in the right direction for
2722    finding this fix.
2723
2724* cavern:
2725
2726  + Fix *declination with an angle to actually work.
2727
2728  + Fix assertion if we try to identify a hanging survey by an anonymous
2729    station.
2730
2731  + Improve errors for invalid survey names in *begin, *end, *equate and
2732    *export.
2733
2734Changes in 1.2.21 (2015-07-28):
2735
2736* aven:
2737
2738  + Fix exporting to KML and other text-based formats to always use "." for the
2739    decimal separator - previously "," would be used when the user's locale
2740    specified this for the decimal separator.  Reported by Jan Schorn.
2741
2742  + Implement exporting of survey legs in KML format.
2743
2744  + Put "paddle" placemarker icons on stations in exported KML files, using the
2745    same colour coding for entrances, fixed points and exported points as aven
2746    does.
2747
2748  + Remove the "Coordinate projection" field from the print dialog, as it isn't
2749    relevant there.  Reported by Wookey.
2750
2751  + Fix the initial scale for small caves (since 1.2.18 the initial scale has
2752    been too small).  Reported by Wookey.
2753
2754  + Don't rescale if the same file is reloaded, but adjust the volume diameter
2755    as appropriate.
2756
2757  + Use wxGetenv() to read the SURVEXEDITOR variable, so we can accept Unicode
2758    values on Windows.
2759
2760* cavern:
2761
2762  + Fix coordinate systems using latitude and longitude - PROJ.4 wants these in
2763    radians, but we were passing degrees, which would generally cause the
2764    conversion to the output coordinate system to fail.  Reported by Wookey.
2765
2766  + Fix *fix with standard deviations when *cs is in use, give an error for use
2767    of *fix with standard deviations before *cs.
2768
2769  + Add new *declination command with support for setting the declination
2770    automatically from the IGRF model based on the survey date.  Thanks to the
2771    Therion developers for the IGRF support code, which we're reusing.
2772    Fixes #54, reported by Wookey.
2773
2774  + Allow the units for the zero error to be specified, making it easier to
2775    specify calibration with a scale if you measure the zero error externally
2776    (rather than using the instrument itself).  Fixes #61, reported by Andrew
2777    Atkinson.
2778
2779  + Report the error from PROJ when coordinate conversion fails as part of the
2780    actual error rather than on a separate line.
2781
2782  + Fix use after free after *solve.  This only occurs if a leg between the two
2783    exact same stations appears right before and right after the *solve, which
2784    is unlikely in real data, but the testsuite has an instance of this.  This
2785    was introduced by the repeat leg averaging added in 1.2.17.
2786
2787  + Fix small memory leak when solving network.  This doesn't really matter
2788    when solving at the end of processing as cavern will exit after that, but
2789    if *solve is used we continue processing after solving.
2790
2791* Remove compatibility handling for specifying a country variant of a language
2792  in SURVEXLANG using "-" with a lower case country code (e.g. "en-us") - we
2793  changed to the standard "en_US" way back in 2001.  This code was mangling
2794  character sets with a "-" in, and is no longer useful.
2795
2796* Ignore any "@<something>" modifier in the language code.
2797
2798* Improve documentation of magnetic declination handling, and cover the new
2799  "*DECLINATION" command.
2800
2801* Document aven's command line options in the manual and its man page.
2802  Reported by Jenny Black.
2803
2804* Point to '*case' and '*truncate' from the 'SEE ALSO' sections of each other's
2805  documentation.
2806
2807* Remove references to SpeleoGen from the documentation - it hasn't been
2808  updated for many years, and can't read recent versions of the .3d format.
2809
2810* Strip documentation references to obsolete versions of MS Windows.
2811
2812* doc/HACKING.htm: Update list of debian packages to install to build from git.
2813
2814Changes in 1.2.20 (2015-06-26):
2815
2816* aven:
2817
2818  + When printing, use the top margin rather than the right margin to calculate
2819    the height of the printable area.  In practice, the two values seem to be
2820    the same or very similar by default.
2821
2822  + Avoid assertion if the about dialog image fails to load.  Reported by Phil
2823    Maynard.
2824
2825  + Optimise the size of the about dialog images.
2826
2827  + Add support for reading terrain data which isn't in a .zip file.
2828
2829  + Force a refresh after loading terrain data so that it gets displayed right
2830    away.
2831
2832  + Make checks for terrain data extensions in zip files case insensitive.
2833
2834  + If reading terrain data fails, always report an error and never try to
2835    display it.
2836
2837* cavern: Allow clino readings in diving style data, suggested by Andrew
2838  Atkinson.  Currently these readings are ignored, but a future version will
2839  check that they're consistent with the angle given by the depth gauge and
2840  tape, and perform suitable averaging.
2841
2842* Remove lingering traces of svxedit.
2843
2844* configure: Fix to allow compiling without libav/ffmpeg, as was possible
2845  before 1.2.19.
2846
2847* (Unix version): Install the filetype and aven application icons under
2848  /usr/share/icons/hicolor, which is where they're expected to be these days.
2849
2850* (Unix version): Add %f to Exec in survex-aven.desktop.
2851
2852* (Mac OS X version): Remove useless extra copy of about box images from OS X
2853  disk image.
2854
2855* (Mac OS X version): Only ship one copy of each of the translations.
2856
2857* (Mac OS X version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling a load of
2858  libav features we don't use.
2859
2860* (Microsoft Windows version): Reduce the size of the aven binary by disabling
2861  a load of libav features we don't use.
2862
2863* (Microsoft Windows version): Update message files to fix a missing Chinese
2864  message in the installer.
2865
2866Changes in 1.2.19 (2015-06-18):
2867
2868* aven:
2869
2870  + Fix exporting to GPX, KML and HPGL, which all failed to write the header to
2871    the exported file in 1.2.18.
2872
2873  + Add exporting to Survex .pos format.
2874
2875  + If the measuring line isn't currently active, pressing "Escape" will now
2876    exit full screen mode.
2877
2878  + (Mac OS X version): Change the shortcut for full screen mode to be the
2879    standard Ctrl+Command+F (rather than Shift+Command+F which we have been
2880    using since 1.2.7).
2881
2882  + (Mac OS X version): When we centre the view on the station this can
2883    generate a mouse move event, so clear the variable which says we are
2884    dragging before we process a left click on a station.  This avoids random
2885    rotations of the survey when clicking on a station, reported in #47 by Hugh
2886    St. Lawrence.
2887
2888  + (Mac OS X version): Force use of a non-native toolbar to stop the toolbar
2889    icons from being rescaled and looking fuzzy.
2890
2891  + (Mac OS X version): Remove code added in 1.2.18 which tries to set stop the
2892    toolbar icons from being rescaled, but which requires an unreleased version
2893    of wxWidgets, had a typo in, and doesn't actually seem to work anyway.
2894
2895  + (Mac OS X version): Drop out of full screen mode if the mouse is mode to
2896    the top of the screen, since we can't seem to display the menu bar in this
2897    case like we do on other platforms.
2898
2899  + (Mac OS X version): Enable aven's movie export feature.
2900
2901  + (Mac OS X version): Enable wxDisplay when building wxWidgets to better
2902    support multi-monitor setups.
2903
2904  + (Mac OS X version): Silence warning visible when aven is run from a
2905    terminal about a missing CFBundleTypeRole.
2906
2907  + When reading terrain data from a .zip file, report an error if the .zip
2908    file is bad, or if it doesn't contain any terrain data we recognise.
2909
2910  + Tweak error message in terrain reading code to distinguish two failure
2911    cases.
2912
2913  + Add viewing angles and scale to footer, and shorten some of the other items
2914    to make room for this extra information.  (Fixes ticket #52, reported by
2915    Erin Lynch)
2916
2917  + If the footer is wider than the printout width, scale down the font used
2918    so that it exactly fits; if the footer is narrower, than space out the
2919    items in in so it uses the full width.
2920
2921  + If the saved size for aven's window exceeds the current display size
2922    (mostly likely because we're now plugged into a smaller monitor), then
2923    reduce the size of the window to fit the display.  If the saved size is <
2924    (480x320), increase it to at least that, as aven isn't usable in a smaller
2925    window.
2926
2927  + Remove crude bodge which tries to pick a nicer initial window size when
2928    using wxWidgets without wxDisplay on a multi-monitor setup - aven now opens
2929    with the same size window it had when it was closed, so the initial size is
2930    only relevant on the first ever run.
2931
2932* Assorted translation updates.  Notably Indonesian is at 100% again.
2933
2934* Stop trying to catch and report signals.  The only real reason to do it is so
2935  we can say "Bug in program detected! Please report this to the authors"
2936  before we exit, but when the program crashes that's pretty obvious.  In aven
2937  we try to pop up a message box for this message, which may fail due to
2938  whatever caused the signal, while with the command line tools there's no
2939  great benefit over just letting the shell report the signal.
2940
2941* Use pkg-config to probe for libav and proj, which sorts out the correct flags
2942  for building on OS X against a static install of libav.
2943
2944Changes in 1.2.18 (2015-06-03):
2945
2946* aven:
2947
2948  + Add support for reading terrain data (from a zip file containing either an
2949    SRTM .hgt file, or an ESRI .bil file and associated metadata files), and
2950    rendering it as a transparent surface.
2951
2952  + Remove actions from 'Orientation' and 'Rotation' menus which you wouldn't
2953    sanely want to perform from the menu.
2954
2955  + Create a "Colour by" submenu of the "View" menu to house the various
2956    colouring options.
2957
2958  + Add "Colour by Gradient" and "Colour by Length".
2959
2960  + Make the button to dismiss the "About" dialog "OK" rather than "Close",
2961    which seems more logical, and also allows the dialog to be closed by
2962    pressing "Escape".
2963
2964  + Destroy any existing clipping region before we write the page footer.
2965    Hopefully solves ticket #52, reported by Erin Lynch.
2966
2967  + Don't round bearing and tilt angles to integers when printing and
2968    exporting.
2969
2970  + Add passage export for EPS format.  (Partly addresses ticket #4)
2971
2972  + Add JSON export.  This should be regarded as experimental, and the format
2973    is quite likely to change.
2974
2975  + Pressing F6 now toggles the display of rendering stats, currently FPS
2976    (Frames Per Second) and the number of triangles in the terrain mesh.
2977
2978  + Add a menu item and toolbar button to show the cavern log window if the
2979    currently shown survey data was processed by aven.  Reported by Hugh St
2980    Lawrence in #47, and by Dave Clucas and others previously on the list.
2981
2982  + Add "Save Log" button to Aven's cavern log window.
2983
2984  + In cavern log window, highlight "error" markers in red and "warning"
2985    markers in orange.
2986
2987  + Rework code to read cavern's output.  In particular, we no longer mix
2988    buffered and non-buffered system calls.
2989
2990  + Aven's support for reading colours and font sizes for printouts from
2991    print.ini has never worked - the contents of the ini files are ignored due
2992    to a bug which has been there since the code was added in 2005 - but nobody
2993    has ever complained.  So just strip out that code entirely - we should
2994    support setting the colours and font sizes, but a GUI interface for setting
2995    them would be better.
2996
2997  + Fix to compile with a Unicode build of wxWidgets 2.8.  Reported by Bill
2998    Gee.
2999
3000  + Take the width of the messages used above the compass and clino into
3001    account when calculating how much space to allow for them - now the labels
3002    won't overlap or be cut off in translations where they are long.
3003
3004  + (Mac OS X version): Attempt to address the size of the toolbar icons.
3005
3006* cavern:
3007
3008  + Reject *fix with SDs which aren't all positive.  (fixes#2, reported by
3009    susscorfa).
3010
3011  + Use the currently set units when outputting measurements in warnings,
3012    errors, and the stats at the end of the run.  Requested by Bill Gee.
3013
3014  + Include column number when a *include file isn't found.
3015
3016  + Show 'error' in front of error messages, like we show 'warning' in front of
3017    warnings.  Fixes #48, reported by Wookey.
3018
3019  + Increase the threshold for warning that fore and back measurements differ
3020    from 2 SDs to 3 SDs.
3021
3022* findentrances: If the 3d file specifies the coordinate system, use it.
3023
3024* svxedit: Remove svxedit - while an editor with built-in knowledge of survex
3025  would be nice to have, svxedit doesn't really offer that, and it looks ugly
3026  in a modern desktop.
3027
3028* If we run out of memory while reading a processed survey data file, include
3029  the filename in the error message.
3030
3031* Many translation updates - notably Indonesian and Russian are now the two
3032  most complete translations.
3033
3034* (Microsoft Windows version): Add code page 1252 mappings for fancy quotes.
3035
3036* Transliterate gradient and infinity symbols if the current character set
3037  lacks them.
3038
3039* Add SVG version of .plt icon.
3040
3041* Manual:
3042
3043  + Add complete list of quantities you can set SDs for.  Thanks for Wookey for
3044    highlighting that the previous list was incomplete.
3045
3046  + Document averaging of a group of repeated readings.
3047
3048  + Add a link to the sample data from the manual.
3049
3050  + Remove references to contact addresses which are no longer there.  Remove
3051    offer to post people floppies, and references to a CD image which isn't
3052    available for download.
3053
3054* Remove non-breaking spaces from the diffpos and extend manual pages, as they
3055  actually make the output formatting worse (presumably these used to work
3056  around a since-fixed bug in one of the docbook processing tools).
3057
3058* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
3059
3060* Fix to compile without warnings with 'g++ --std=gnu++11'.
3061
3062Changes in 1.2.17 (2015-02-24):
3063
3064* MacOS X version:
3065
3066  + Update INSTALL file with current status.
3067
3068  + Aven.app now has a custom icon.
3069
3070  + Add icons for all the filetypes supported.
3071
3072  + Add Finder actions for .svx, .3d, .plt and .pos files.
3073
3074  + aven: Hide the status bar and tool bar in Full Screen mode, as wx doesn't
3075    currently do this for us.
3076
3077  + aven: Fix short-cut for toggling Full Screen mode.
3078
3079  + aven: Make "About" menu item appear.
3080
3081  + aven: Fix "Close" button in about dialog.
3082
3083  + aven: Make custom cursors black with a white outline to match the standard
3084    OS X cursor.
3085
3086  + svxedit: Now wrapped up in an application bundle as svxedit.app.  It
3087    still doesn't really work like a standard app though - e.g. you can't load
3088    files from Finder (instead run svxedit.app and use File->Open), the font
3089    size of most menu items is wrong, the icon for the app is the wish icon
3090    rather than the svxedit icon, shortcuts use Ctrl not the Cmd key, and
3091    probably more.  I'd probably recommend using another editor (OS X comes
3092    with TextEdit.app for example).
3093
3094  + The documentation is now in a "Docs" directory alongside the apps, rather
3095    than in the rather less obvious "share/doc/survex" directory.
3096
3097  + Default to building for x86_64, since all modern Macs are 64 bit.
3098
3099  + Disable use of liblzma when building wxWidgets for OS X, which was
3100    preventing the build from working on OS X 10.6.8.
3101
3102  + Download wx sources from SF via redirecting link.  Thanks to David A.
3103    Riggs.
3104
3105  + buildmacosx.sh: Handle the mount point for the disk image containing a
3106    space.
3107
3108  + Link with a static build of PROJ for doing coordinate system conversions.
3109
3110  + Build wx with --disable-webview to avoid a compilation failure on OS X
3111    10.10.1.
3112
3113  + Use wx-config --cc and --cxx to get the compilers to use for building
3114    everything else, as wx adds options to them which otherwise cause linking
3115    errors.
3116
3117  + The diskimage (.dmg) file is now compressed with bzip2, which gives a
3118    smaller download.  This means OS X 10.4 is required, but we probably
3119    already need at least 10.5 because that's the minimum version which the
3120    wxWidgets build supports by default.
3121
3122  + Remove unused files and copies of files from the diskimage.
3123
3124* cavern: If the same leg is repeated consecutively, average the readings and
3125  treat as a single leg.
3126
3127* dump3d: Report SEPARATOR used by the file being read.
3128
3129* aven.svg: Fix visual glitch in SVG icon for aven.  Noted by David A. Riggs.
3130
3131* aven:
3132
3133  + Greatly reduce flicker when mouse is moved to the top of the screen in full
3134    screen mode and the menu bar reappears.
3135
3136  + For export formats where scaling is supporting, aven now actually uses the
3137    scale specified in the export dialog (previously it ignored this and used
3138    1:500).
3139
3140  + Reimplement animation so that it's based on angular change per unit of
3141    elapsed time, rather than averaging the time take for the last two scene
3142    redraws.  This gives smoother animation in the face of variable load and
3143    scene redraw time, and should be more consistent between platforms.
3144
3145  + Switching to a point of the compass during auto-rotation now jumps straight
3146    there rather than the two animations fighting.
3147
3148  + Reduce the maximum auto-rotation speed, as the previous limit was uselessly
3149    fast.
3150
3151  + Disable stepping the rotation angle when animating (previously we only did
3152    when rotating).
3153
3154  + Speed up start-up a bit - rather than loading icons from individual PNG
3155    files on disk, compile them into the aven binary.
3156
3157* (Unix version): Add "MimeType" field to desktop files so that file
3158  associations work out of the box with modern desktop environments.
3159
3160* Add start of Hungarian translation from Imre Balogh.
3161
3162* Merge in many updates to the Russian translation from "vsuhachev".
3163
3164* Assorted minor updates to other translations.
3165
3166* Create scalable (SVG) versions of file type icons.
3167
3168* doc/manual.sgml: Remove $Id and $Date markers, as they don't get expanded now
3169  we're using git.
3170
3171* tests/: Improve test coverage in a few places:
3172
3173  + Extend tests of fore and back sights to test calibration of the back
3174    compass.
3175
3176  + Test "Can't calibrate angular and length quantities together" error.
3177
3178  + Check that "*set names ." works when "." is also the decimal point.
3179
3180Changes in 1.2.16 (2014-10-17):
3181
3182* aven: Add KML export (stations only currently).
3183
3184* aven: Allow measuring line to measure from anonymous stations.  (Fixes #44)
3185
3186* aven: Fix corrupted names in exported files.
3187
3188* aven: Fix error log window under wxWidgets >= 2.9 to include the system
3189  information before the first log message like it does under wxWidgets 2.8.
3190
3191* cavern: Add support for "*cs JTSK" and "*cs JTSK03".
3192
3193* tests/: Improve test coverage.
3194
3195* Translation updates for many languages, plus the start of translations to
3196  Greek and Polish.
3197
3198* Fix to build against wxWidgets 3.0 built with assertions disabled.  Reported
3199  by Martin Sluka.
3200
3201* Fix warnings when compiling with clang (which is the default compiler on
3202  Mac OS X).  Reported by Martin Sluka.
3203
3204Changes in 1.2.15 (2014-08-14):
3205
3206* cavern: The *cs command now also supports "long-lat", "s-merc" (for "Web
3207  Mercator"), EPSG and ESRI codes, "eur79z30", "ijtsk" and "ijtsk03".  This
3208  means that we now support all the coordinates systems which Therion does,
3209  except for a few which don't have X=East and Y=North.  The documentation
3210  for *cs has also been improved.
3211
3212* aven: We no longer persist full screen mode between runs - it's not a
3213  standard behaviour of desktop programs, and it's too easy to go into full
3214  screen mode from the menu and then not be able to get out again because you
3215  don't know the required key shortcut. (ticket#39)
3216
3217* aven: When in full screen mode, moving the mouse to the top of the screen now
3218  makes the menu bar appear.  This provides a non-shortcut way out of full
3219  screen mode, as well as making it easier to perform other operations while in
3220  full screen mode.  The current implementation gives an annoyingly flickery
3221  transition, but hopefully we can improve this in future. (ticket#39)
3222
3223* (MacOS X version): If built with wxWidgets >= 3.1.0 (which is still in
3224  development), we now call EnableFullScreenView() which improves the full
3225  screen mode experience on OS X 10.7 and later.
3226
3227* img library: Improve documentation for img_ERROR_INFO.
3228
3229* tests/: Ship some missing .out files and compare.tst.
3230
3231* tests/: cavern.tst testcase back2 is now actually used.  Fix a bug in this
3232  testcase, and extend it to cover a variant of the situation reported as a bug
3233  in therion by Bill Gee to the therion list.
3234
3235* (Linux version) survex.spec: Add run-time requirement on proj and proj-epsg
3236  for the survex package and on tk for the svxedit package.
3237
3238Changes in 1.2.14 (2014-07-05):
3239
3240* img library: Add ability to store a PROJ4 string describing the coordinate
3241  system in use in 3d v8 files.
3242
3243* aven: If the 3d file specifies a coordinate system, then use it for exporting
3244  to formats which need to know (currently GPX).  If the input file doesn't
3245  specify the coordinate system, allow the user to enter a PROJ4 string in the
3246  export dialog.
3247
3248* aven: You can now quickly zoom to a particular area by holding down the
3249  "Shift" key and dragging with the left mouse button to create a rectangular
3250  "rubber band box" around the area you wish to zoom to.  If you release the
3251  "Shift" key while still dragging, the box is centred on the start point
3252  rather than having one corner there.
3253
3254* aven: Fix exporting of passage tubes in elevations and extended elevations
3255  - previously up and down were getting drawn across the page!
3256
3257* aven: Fix "Cancel" to work on the print/export dialog, broken by changes in
3258  1.2.13.  (Reported by Brian Clipstone)
3259
3260* aven: Fix the conditions on which the menu item "Cancel measuring line" is
3261  enabled - previously it was hard to actually cancel it via the menu.
3262  Reported by Hugh St Lawrence.
3263
3264* aven: Fix wx assertion failures when showing hit test debug view on platforms
3265  such as 64-bit Linux.
3266
3267* aven: When viewing from above, show "Plan" above the "clino" which indicates
3268  the tilt angle (instead of "Elevation -90°").
3269
3270* aven: The extended font data now loads faster, and also uses less memory on
3271  64-bit platforms.
3272
3273* aven: Dragging the vertical divider between the side panel and the 3D view
3274  now only updates when you finish the drag, as redrawing continuously just
3275  looks clunky except on an ultra-fast machine.
3276
3277* aven: (German translation) Abbreviate "Blickrichtung" so it doesn't overfill
3278  the space available in the aven UI.
3279
3280* cavern: Add a *cs command to allow setting the coordinate system for *fix
3281  commands, and the coordinate system used for processed survey data.  The
3282  latter is now stored in 3d v8 format files.
3283
3284* cavern: Add support for 'L' flag (exclude from length) in Compass .dat files
3285  and handle it in the same way as the "DUPLICATE" flag in .svx files.
3286
3287* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, still
3288  actually fix the second and subsequent ones, to avoid triggering bogus errors
3289  about unconnected surveys.
3290
3291* cavern: If there's more than one *fix command with coordinates, report the
3292  station name of the previous one, plus the file and line number where it was.
3293
3294* cavern: Fix handling of the rather contrived case of *fix with no coordinates
3295  followed by *solve and then another *fix with no coordinates not to access
3296  freed memory.
3297
3298* dump3d: Report any specified coordinate system.
3299
3300* doc/3dformat.htm: Update to document how the coordinate system is stored.
3301
3302* (Microsoft Windows version): Include dump3d in the installer.
3303
3304* Fix a compiler warning.
3305
3306* Improve test coverage.
3307
3308Changes in 1.2.13 (2014-05-15):
3309
3310* aven: Fix --print option to wait for printing to happen before exiting
3311  (previously it would exit right after opening the print dialog, so you
3312  couldn't actually print anything out using it).
3313
3314* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
3315  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
3316  Hugh St Lawrence.
3317
3318* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
3319  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
3320  with using aven on a touch screen device.
3321
3322* aven: The measuring line was unable to see stations which had just been
3323  revealed by toggling surface or underground legs on - this is now fixed.
3324
3325* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
3326  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).
3327
3328* aven: Pressing F4 now allows the user to toggle wxWidgets assertion messages
3329  off and back on.
3330
3331* aven: Create the empty hit-test grid data structure lazily, to reduce start
3332  up time a little.
3333
3334* cavern: Improve messages which talk about "tags" and/or "prefixes" in *begin
3335  and *end commands to instead talk about "survey names".
3336
3337* cavern: For ages cavern has warned if you reentered a survey, but this
3338  warning was suppressed if it occurred at the same line of the same file as
3339  the survey was first entered, but this can only happen if you include the
3340  same survey file more than once, which isn't a sensible thing to do for a
3341  file with actual survey data in (you might reasonably do it to set up survey
3342  grade details or something like that).  The warning is now given in this
3343  situation too.
3344
3345* cavern: After 5 warnings about reentering a survey we give up warning about
3346  it, but we used to keep reporting where the survey was originally entered -
3347  this secondary diagnostic message is now silenced when the main message is.
3348
3349* (Microsoft Windows version): Compile C code with optimisation on.
3350
3351* Add the start of a Russian translation, with messages take from therion.
3352
3353* Minor translation updates to French.
3354
3355* Fix compiler warning from GCC.
3356
3357* Testsuite improvements:
3358
3359  + Test that "..." anon station works.
3360
3361  + cavern.tst: Check number of errors returned by all testcases which should
3362    fail and give an error count.
3363
3364  + cavern.tst: Fix to actually fully test everything when builddir != srcdir.
3365
3366Changes in 1.2.12 (2014-04-14):
3367
3368* aven: Fix measuring line to show change in altitude rather than altitude
3369  itself (accidentally broken by changes in 1.2.11).  Reported by Brian
3370  Clipstone.
3371
3372* aven: Fix printing when built with wxWidgets 3.0.
3373
3374* aven: Several visual improvements to printouts:
3375
3376  + Move the numbers below the scale bar down a little so that they don't
3377    overlap the scale bar ticks.
3378
3379  + Set the clipping region after we draw the page border and info box to avoid
3380    clipping the border in print preview.
3381
3382  + Tidy up the appearance of the compass and elevation arrow.
3383
3384* aven: Fix to build with libav 10.  Reported by Moritz Muehlenhoff in
3385  <http://bugs.debian.org/739332>.
3386
3387* aven: Fix to build with older libav where avcodec_free_frame() isn't
3388  available.
3389
3390* (Linux version) survex.spec: Update spec file used for building RPM packages.
3391
3392* (Unix version): Add "Keywords:" entry to .desktop files.
3393
3394* (Unix version): Enable large file support, mostly to support filing systems
3395  which return 64 bit inode values, such as CIFS mounts.
3396
3397* (Microsoft Windows version): Only allow "A-Z" or "a-z" for driver letters,
3398  rather than any character which is a letter in the current locale.
3399
3400* Various translation updates.
3401
3402Changes in 1.2.11 (2014-01-28):
3403
3404* aven: Fix wxWidgets assertion when double clicking on an anonymous station.
3405  Reported by Kevin Dixon.
3406
3407* aven: Embed the font data for the first 256 Unicode characters for use in the
3408  survey pane into the compiled aven binary to reduce start up overhead.  Any
3409  additional characters needed are loaded from a data file only if/when a
3410  character >= U+100 is actually needed (as before).
3411
3412* aven: Fix display of Unicode characters above 256 when there's a character
3413  <= 256 earlier in the same string.
3414
3415* aven: Use the actual width of Unicode characters above 256 rather than
3416  assuming they are 16 pixels wide.
3417
3418* aven: If full screen, don't show the side panel when a new file is opened
3419  (e.g. via Ctrl+O).
3420
3421* aven: Don't give an assertion failure when showing passages for a cave with
3422  no vertical extent.  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3423
3424* aven: Change terminology in print dialog - say "legend" instead of "info
3425  box".
3426
3427* aven: Add option to show the tilt angle as a percentage gradient.
3428
3429* aven: Show the units (degrees, grads, or percent) for the tilt and bearing
3430  indicators.
3431
3432* aven: All length units are now translatable.
3433
3434* aven: Split log_fl_error helper function out of CHECK_GL_ERROR macro, which
3435  will reduce code size and also the number of deprecation warnings about
3436  gluErrorString on Mac OS X 10.9.
3437
3438* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Try to work around redraw issues related
3439  to the measuring line by redrawing the whole window, which doesn't seem to be
3440  measurably slower.
3441
3442* cavern: If *units is used to try to set units for LEVEL, PLUMB, or POSITION,
3443  give an error rather than quietly ignoring the attempt.
3444
3445* cad3d: Make cad3d remap control characters and spaces in station names when
3446  generating PLT output in the same way aven does.
3447
3448* Various translation updates (particular thanks to Eric Madelaine and Dennis
3449  Baudys), including the start of a Bulgarian translation, with messages taken
3450  from Therion and elsewhere.
3451
3452* (Microsoft Windows version): On Microsoft Windows 2000 and newer, use
3453  GetUserDefaultUILanguage() to get the UI language to use.  For older
3454  versions, continue to use GetUserDefaultLCID().
3455
3456* (Microsoft Windows version): The Indonesian translation will now be used
3457  automatically when the system language is set to Indonesian.
3458
3459* (Mac OS X version): Fix to build with wx 3.0.0 on OS X 10.9.  Thanks to David
3460  A. Riggs for his work on this.
3461
3462* (Mac OS X version): Update buildmacosx.sh script to use wx 3.0.0, and add a
3463  checksum check for the downloaded wx sources.
3464
3465* Fix a lot of the compiler warnings when building with clang.
3466
3467* doc/manual.sgml: Add missing quantities to the list documented as accepted by
3468  *units: LEFT, RIGHT, UP/CEILING, DOWN/FLOOR (missing entirely);
3469  BACKCOMPASS/BACKBEARING, BACKCLINO/BACKGRADIENT (missing from the main list,
3470  mentioned in list of the units that can be set for them); COUNT (missing
3471  alternative name for COUNTER); DX/EASTING, DY/NORTHING, DZ/ALTITUDE
3472  (incorrectly listed as X, Y, Z).  Reported by Jonny Prouty.
3473
3474* Test suite: Improve test coverage for cavern.
3475
3476Changes in 1.2.10 (2014-01-15):
3477
3478* aven: Fix assertion if two mouse buttons are held down at the same time.
3479  If dragging with more than one mouse button held down, releasing one causes
3480  another which is still held down to take effect.  Reported by Brian
3481  Clipstone.
3482
3483* aven: If we fail to start the external editor when the user clicks on an
3484  error or warning from cavern, show an error box.
3485
3486* aven: If the survey has a title, add it as a top-level <title> element to
3487  exported SVG files.
3488
3489* aven: Escape '<', '>', and '&' in labels in exported SVG files.
3490
3491* aven: In GPX export, set the <time> element to the datestamp from the 3d
3492  file.
3493
3494* aven: Don't try to write the title if it isn't set or is empty when exporting
3495  GPX files.
3496
3497* aven: Don't bother looking up the printer page setup info when exporting.
3498
3499* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix crash on "File->Print" or
3500  "File->Export" under Windows XP, reported by Brian Clipstone.
3501
3502* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Fix error dialog about an incorrectly
3503  encoded filename which could occur if run without being asked to load a file
3504  on startup.
3505
3506* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Compile with optimisation on.
3507
3508* img library, aven: Although processed CMAP data files are often referred to
3509  as "CMAP .XYZ files", it seems that actually, the extension .XYZ isn't used,
3510  rather .SHT (shot variant, produced by CMAP v16 and later), .UNA (unadjusted)
3511  and .ADJ (adjusted) extensions are.  Since we've long checked for .XYZ, we
3512  continue to do so in case anyone is relying on it, but also check for the
3513  other extensions.
3514
3515* img library: Add new "datestamp_numeric" field to struct img giving the
3516  datestamp as a time_t in UTC (or (time_t)-1 if there's no datestamp or we
3517  failed to convert it).  For .3d >= v8, this field is reliable.  We attempt to
3518  convert date strings in .3d <= v7 and CMAP XYZ files, but may get the
3519  timezone wrong.
3520
3521* img library: Fix my_strcasecmp() to handle top-bit set characters better.
3522
3523* cavern: Fix NULL pointer dereference when processing Compass DAT file without
3524  'SURVEY DATE:'.
3525
3526* doc/manual.sgml: Update references to Survex 1.1 which should be to 1.2.
3527
3528* doc/manual.sgml: Note the station length limit Smaps used.
3529
3530* Fix some compiler warnings if built with glibc's fortify source feature
3531  enabled.
3532
3533Changes in 1.2.9 (2014-01-08):
3534
3535* Document --3d-version in cavern man page and the manual.
3536
3537* aven: Fix compilation error in movie export code with recent libavi.
3538
3539* aven: Fix warning on stderr when export a movie as MPEG.
3540
3541* img library: In non-hosted mode, don't define GETC and PUTC if they're
3542  already defined, to allow easy overriding with getc_unlocked() and
3543  putc_unlocked() (which are significantly faster on Linux).
3544
3545* img library: In non-hosted mode, check that int is at least 32 bits,
3546  and if not, use long.  In practice, platforms with 16 bit int are mostly
3547  obsolete, but it's not hard to be portable here.
3548
3549* img library: Add test that img.c and img.h compile in non-hosted mode
3550  (regression test for issue fixed in 1.2.8).
3551
3552* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 3.0.0.
3553
3554* Update translations from launchpad and from existing similar messages.
3555
3556* Fix some compiler warnings.
3557
3558Changes in 1.2.8 (2013-10-29):
3559
3560* cavern: Fix handling of anonymous wall stations ('..' by default) to
3561  implicitly set the SPLAY leg flag, as was intended.  Reported by Thomas
3562  Holder.
3563
3564* cavern: Tweak .err file output not to lose the space in front of certain
3565  statistics when the value gets large.
3566
3567* cavern: Eliminate redundant progress message when solving simultaneous
3568  equations.
3569
3570* aven: Add a format drop down to the export dialog, and only show fields which
3571  are meaningful and supported for the currently selected export format.  The
3572  format defaults to that used most recently.  The "Elements" and "View" boxes
3573  have been swapped in the print and export dialogs as that layout works much
3574  better when the "View" box is hidden.
3575
3576* aven: Changing checkboxes in the print or export dialog didn't work in 1.2.7
3577  - now works again.  Reported by Anthony Day.
3578
3579* aven: Add GPX export (based on findentrances patch from Olaf Kähler).  In
3580  this release the projection which the survey coordinates are in defaults
3581  to the BMN M31 grid used in the Totes Gebirge in Austria.  On Unix, you
3582  can edit ~/.aven and add a new line setting 'input_projection' to a PROJ
3583  projection string.  The ability to specify this projection in a better
3584  way is coming soon.
3585
3586* aven: New export options "Origin in centre" and "Full coordinates" - the
3587  latter fixes #10.  GPX and PLT output implicitly force "full coordinates".
3588
3589* aven: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some
3590  time ago, so update references.
3591
3592* aven: Make the Presentation->Play menu item a checkbox, to avoid a warning
3593  with wxMSW 2.9.5.  Reported by Brian Clipstone.
3594
3595* aven: Make right click in an empty presentation mark the current position and
3596  open it to edit, instead of crashing.
3597
3598* aven: Update movie export code to work with latest libav API.  Reported by
3599  Sebastian Ramacher.
3600
3601* aven: Improve reporting of errors during the process of exporting a movie.
3602
3603* aven: Don't try to close the movie if we aren't producing one.
3604
3605* aven: Fix assertion failure when double-clicking on the survey with wx2.9.
3606
3607* aven: Fix to build with wxMSW 2.9.5.
3608
3609* aven: Fix to build with wx 2.9.5 with wx2.8 compatibility disabled.
3610
3611* cad3d: The "Sketch" vector drawing program got renamed to "Skencil" some time
3612  ago, so add a new --skencil option to specify this output format.  The old
3613  name (--sketch) is still recognised for compatibility.
3614
3615* cad3d: Make --marker-size work for Skencil and SVG output.
3616
3617* dump3d: Make --show-dates option show dates for XSECT.
3618
3619* img library:
3620
3621  + Fix to work once more when used outside of Survex (missing definition of
3622    max() macro and a bad call to free() in img_close() for a file opened for
3623    reading).
3624
3625  + Use lround() instead of round(), and make the tests around whether we use
3626    the library function or the our fallback implementation saner.
3627
3628  + Fix // comments in C code for portability to pre-C99 compilers which don't
3629    support these as an extension.
3630
3631  + Can now be compiled as C++ as well as as C.
3632
3633* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now built with a newer version
3634  of Innosetup, and includes translations for all the languages which Survex
3635  itself has any translations for.
3636
3637* (Microsoft Windows version): aven is now built with wxWidgets 2.9.5.
3638
3639* Minor translation updates.
3640
3641* tests/Makefile.am: Distribute files for "normal_bad" testcase.
3642
3643Changes in 1.2.7 (2013-07-27):
3644
3645* Add support for anonymous stations, which are indicated by one, two or three
3646  separator characters - with the default separator of '.', that means '.',
3647  '..', and '...' are anonymous stations.  Single separator ('.' by default)
3648  is an anonymous non-wall point, double separator ('..' by default)
3649  is an anonymous wall point at the end of an implicit splay), and triple
3650  separator ('...' by default) is an anonymous point (with nothing special about
3651  the leg).  A new *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for
3652  compatibility with pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3653
3654* New version 8 of the 3d format:
3655
3656  + Supports new flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3657
3658  + New explicit file-wide flag for 'this is an extended elevation', rather
3659    than modifying the survey title to indicate this.
3660
3661  + The survey prefix is often unchanged from one leg to the next, so use a
3662    spare flag to compactly indicate when there's no label change.
3663
3664  + The data style of each leg is now stored.
3665
3666  + The "processed at" time is stored as seconds since 1970 rather than a
3667    human-readable string.
3668
3669  + Since 3d v8 features significant changes to the format, the format
3670    documentation for v7 and earlier has been split off into 3dformat-old.htm.
3671
3672* img library:
3673
3674  + New station flags img_SFLAG_ANON and img_SFLAG_WALL.
3675
3676  + Handle .pos files containing unnamed stations - don't suck the next line in
3677    as the station name, and set img_SFLAG_ANON for them.
3678
3679  + Repurpose the long unused fBinary parameter to img_open_write() as a flags
3680    parameter, and add img_FFLAG_EXTENDED to specify that this is an extended
3681    elevation, in place of appending " (extended)" to the title.  Internally we
3682    still append this to the title (and remove it upon reading) when writing
3683    3d v7 or earlier, but for the new 3d v8 format, this flag is stored
3684    explicitly in the file.
3685
3686  + img.h: Add comments for the lists of "Leg flags" and "Station flags".
3687
3688* aven:
3689
3690  + We now require at least wxWidgets 2.8.0 - it was released over 6 years ago
3691    now, and the wx developers consider even 2.8 to be rather long in the
3692    tooth.  We stopped testing building with wxWidgets 2.6 some time ago, and
3693    formally dropping support for older versions allows a number of workarounds
3694    to be removed from the aven source code.  Also, features deprecated in
3695    wxWidgets 2.9 are no longer used in our code.
3696
3697  + Don't run incremental search on every key-press, as on a slow machine the
3698    short initial search(es) will take a while but not be useful.  Instead only
3699    actually run the search when we're told there are no more key-presses
3700    queued up.
3701
3702  + Implement support for including cross-section information in exported SVG
3703    and DXF files (ticket#4).  The DXF export is untested currently.
3704
3705  + Show splay legs faded by default, with menu options to hide them or show
3706    them like other legs.
3707
3708  + Speed up loading a .3d file with cross-sections by using a map to convert
3709    station names to positions.
3710
3711  + In the cavern log window, don't highlight a file:linenumber if there's no
3712    message after it, which avoids highlighting the "Included from" lines
3713    wrongly.
3714
3715  + Fix not to crash when trying to report an error while starting up.
3716
3717  + (MacOS X version): Change the menu shortcut for "Full Screen Mode" to be
3718    the OS X standard shortcut Shift-Command-F (previously we used F11, but
3719    that's used by the desktop).
3720
3721  + Add checks for errors when reading the font file.
3722
3723  + Remove useless extra quoting when invoking vim to show the location of an
3724    error from cavern.
3725
3726  + Include GL/gl.h before GL/glext.h (needed on Debian wheezy).
3727
3728  + Use wxValidator to simplify keeping svxPrintDlg member variables and fields
3729    in the dialog in sync.
3730
3731* cavern:
3732
3733  + Demote errors about invalid dates to warnings, since we've accepted *date
3734    for ages without any checks on the value, and so existing datasets
3735    probably contain invalid dates and dates in other formats.  (ticket#19)
3736
3737  + New *alias command allows '-' to be mapped to '..' for compatibility with
3738    pocket topo: *alias station - ..
3739
3740  + We want to warn if there's a clino reading which it would be impossible to
3741    have read from the instrument (e.g. on a -90 to 90 degree scale you can't
3742    read "93" (it's probably a typo e.g. for "39").  However, the gradient
3743    reading from a topofil is typically in the range 0 to 180, with 90 being
3744    horizontal.  Really we should allow the valid range to be explicitly
3745    specified, but for now we infer it from the zero error - if this is within
3746    45 degrees of 90 then we assume the instrument can read between 0 and 180
3747    degrees.
3748
3749  + If the survey isn't all connected, still run survey tree checks and report
3750    errors and/or warnings which might suggest typo locations.  Thanks to Kevin
3751    Dixon for the report which highlighted this issue.
3752
3753  + Report a warning if *begin SURVEY has a separator character in SURVEY.
3754
3755  + Report column numbers as well as line numbers for some cavern errors and
3756    warnings.
3757
3758  + Adjust width of node stats table to fit longest count when there are more
3759    than 9999 of a particular order of node.
3760
3761  + If the argument to *include has an opening double quote but the closing
3762    double quote is missing, then skip trying to open the file.
3763
3764  + Move "Station X referred to just once" warning after non-existent survey
3765    check - if both fire, the non-existent survey error is likely to be more
3766    relevant.
3767
3768  + We no longer follow an error for a bad reading in passage data with a bogus
3769    "End of line not blank" error, but instead check the remaining readings on
3770    the same line.
3771
3772  + We no longer follow an error about OMIT for a required reading with a bogus
3773    "End of line not blank" error.
3774
3775  + Report an error if the scale factor in *calibrate is zero - it doesn't make
3776    sense and probably means someone reversed the arguments to *calibrate.
3777
3778  + Report the parent include files starting from the outermost, as that's more
3779    logical when there are multiple levels involved.
3780
3781  + If we were expecting a numeric field and instead get something which starts
3782    with '+', '-', or '.' but which isn't a number, then fix the error to
3783    include that character in the token reported.
3784
3785  + Simplify handling of quantity lists to only recognise 'DEFAULT' as the
3786    first item.
3787
3788* cad3d: Check for errors from img_rewind() and report them.
3789
3790* dump3d:
3791
3792  + Build, install and package dump3d as standard - it's useful for grabbing
3793    info from 3d files in scripts.
3794
3795  + Add --show-dates option.
3796
3797  + Show only 2 decimal places on coordinates and passage dimensions.
3798
3799  + Report the data style of legs.
3800
3801  + Report if the file is an extended elevation.
3802
3803  + Report img_STOP as STOP rather than CODE_0xffffffff.
3804
3805* Test suite:
3806
3807  + cavern.tst: Fix equatenosuchstn testcase (added in 1.2.6) to normalise the
3808    expected output so it passes reliably.
3809
3810  + cavern.tst: Run diffpos <expected> <actual> so the reports of 'Added' and
3811    'Deleted' stations upon failure are the more natural way round.
3812
3813  + Add more testcases, expand some existing testcases, and add expected output
3814    for more.
3815
3816* (Microsoft Windows version): Use wx-config's --cc and --cxx flags to find the
3817  appropriate C and C++ compilers to use, and link mingw build statically to
3818  avoid needing the libgcc DLL (which newer GCC seems to have by default).
3819
3820* (Unix version): When determining the character set for command-line tools,
3821  check environmental variable LANG after LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE.
3822
3823* When determining the language, check environmental variable LC_ALL before
3824  LC_MESSAGES and LANG (but after SURVEXLANG).
3825
3826* If we don't find the message file, only give an error if it was specified
3827  with SURVEXLANG, since that is an explicit instruction to Survex, whereas
3828  LANG, LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES are essentially system "preferred locale"
3829  settings.
3830
3831* There are a handful of hard-coded English message strings for reporting
3832  errors trying loading message files, etc.  These are all now ASCII, as if we
3833  fail trying to open a message file, it's more likely the encoding isn't
3834  set correctly.
3835
3836* Prune strings we are no longer using and are probably unlikely to use again
3837  into a new file po_codes_dead, so that translators don't get presented with
3838  them to translate.
3839
3840* Merge lots of translation updates.  Most translations are now complete or
3841  close to complete.
3842
3843* Add start of Indonesian translation from Arief Setiadi Wibowo.
3844
3845* Fix various compiler warnings when building from source.
3846
3847* Include scripts gdtconvert and gen_img2aven in the source distribution.
3848
3849Changes in 1.2.6 (2012-02-23):
3850
3851* (Mac OS X version): Fix so that cavern finds its messages when run by aven.
3852
3853* (Microsoft Windows version): Include JPEG images for aven in the installer
3854  package (ticket#35).
3855
3856* cavern: If we have a reference to a station in a non-existent survey, give a
3857  helpful error rather than saying the station hasn't been exported from the
3858  survey.  (Bug reported by Martin Green via email)
3859
3860* aven: Fix to build with a non-Unicode wxWidgets library.  Patch from Olaf
3861  Kahler.
3862
3863* findentrances: Add findentrances utility from Olaf Kahler which produces a
3864  .gpx file with waypoints for entrances.  This needs libproj so is disabled
3865  by default for this release - to enable it install the development stuff for
3866  libproj and build survex with:
3867
3868      make FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3869      make install FINDENTRANCES=findentrances
3870
3871* dump3d: Add support for showing img_ERROR_INFO items.
3872
3873* doc/3dformat.htm: Merge in some improvements from Mike McCombe.
3874
3875* Incorporate a French translation from launchpad I'd previously copied the
3876  English version of by mistake.  Attempt to correct mistranslation of "survey
3877  file".
3878
3879Changes in 1.2.5 (2012-01-03):
3880
3881* aven:
3882
3883  + The survey tree in the left panel is now in sorted order once more.
3884
3885  + No longer fails with an assertion if used for a long time (we were leaking
3886    an OpenGL list each time one had to be regenerated).
3887
3888  + Now builds with newer FFmpeg library.
3889
3890  + Draw measuring line in front of the indicators rather than behind them.
3891
3892  + Loading a new file (or reloading the current one) no longer invalidates
3893    the OpenGL lists for the compass and clino, so will be a fraction faster.
3894
3895* Improve handling of attempts to look up translated messages before the
3896  message subsystem is fully initialised (which only happens if there's an
3897  error early on).
3898
3899* Improve the survex(7) man page text, and fix it to be marked as section 7 in
3900  the man page source as well as in the filename.
3901
3902Changes in 1.2.4 (2012-01-01):
3903
3904* aven:
3905
3906  + A change in 1.2.3 meant that aven tried to use OpenGL before it was
3907    initialised, which doesn't cause problems in some machines, but causes aven
3908    to abort on others.  This is now fixed, and there's a check in place to
3909    help avoid similar issues in future. (ticket#34)
3910
3911  + Always use metres or feet for the depth colour key, and choose a consistent
3912    precision by looking at the depth range. (ticket#30)
3913
3914  + Show the depth units below the colour bar rather than after every value.
3915
3916  + When zooming way in, stay in metres rather than switching to cm.
3917
3918  + On the scale bar, say “1 mile” rather than “1 miles”.
3919
3920* Translation updates for Catalan, French and Slovak.
3921
3922Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
3923
3924* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
3925
3926* (Mac OS X version):
3927
3928  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
3929
3930  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
3931
3932  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
3933    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
3934
3935  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
3936
3937* aven:
3938
3939  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
3940
3941  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
3942
3943    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
3944      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
3945      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
3946      character.
3947
3948    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
3949      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
3950      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
3951      and two in a few cases.
3952
3953    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
3954      8 pixels.
3955
3956  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
3957    draw crosses.
3958
3959  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
3960    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
3961    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
3962    is the start or end of a tube.
3963
3964  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
3965    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
3966
3967  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
3968    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
3969    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
3970
3971* extend:
3972
3973  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
3974
3975  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
3976    which means "no info").
3977
3978* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
3979  was no longer used - it certainly is!
3980
3981* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
3982  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
3983  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
3984  current character set.
3985
3986* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
3987
3988* Test suite:
3989
3990  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
3991
3992  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
3993
3994Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
3995
3996* aven:
3997
3998  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
3999    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
4000    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
4001    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
4002    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
4003    usable format.
4004
4005  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
4006    files.  (ticket#26)
4007
4008  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
4009    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
4010
4011  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
4012    using lines.
4013
4014  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
4015    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
4016
4017  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
4018    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
4019    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
4020    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
4021
4022  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
4023    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
4024    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
4025
4026  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
4027    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
4028    in 1.2.1.
4029
4030Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
4031
4032* Translation updates for US English.
4033
4034* aven:
4035
4036  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
4037    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
4038
4039  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
4040
4041  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
4042    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
4043    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
4044    visually similar to the survey legs.
4045
4046  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
4047    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
4048
4049  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
4050    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
4051    does still provide some useful information).
4052
4053  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
4054    a depth band boundary.
4055
4056  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
4057    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
4058    full-screen mode).
4059
4060  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
4061    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
4062    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
4063    are a little better, though still not perfect.
4064
4065  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
4066    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
4067
4068  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
4069    that station.
4070
4071  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
4072    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
4073
4074  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
4075    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
4076    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
4077    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
4078    a case as it is a bug).
4079
4080  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
4081    invalidated on window width or height changes.
4082
4083  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
4084    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
4085    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
4086    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
4087
4088  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
4089    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
4090    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
4091    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
4092    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
4093    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
4094    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
4095
4096  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
4097    similarly for other compass points.
4098
4099  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
4100    info in the "About" dialog.
4101
4102  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
4103    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
4104
4105  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
4106    as well as still working with older versions.
4107
4108  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
4109    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
4110
4111  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
4112    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
4113    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
4114    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
4115    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
4116
4117  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
4118    nicer and make better use of the available space.
4119
4120  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
4121    dialog.
4122
4123  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
4124    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
4125
4126  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
4127    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
4128
4129  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
4130
4131  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
4132
4133  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
4134    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
4135    being pressed and toggle full screen.
4136
4137* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
4138  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
4139
4140* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
4141
4142* More messages are now available to be translated.
4143
4144* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
4145  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
4146
4147* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
4148
4149* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
4150  sudo for installing on Unix.
4151
4152* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
4153  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
4154
4155* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
4156  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
4157
4158* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
4159
4160Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
4161
4162* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
4163  English.
4164
4165* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
4166  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
4167  case.
4168
4169* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
4170  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
4171  these into Survex's .msg format.
4172
4173* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
4174  an actual command).
4175
4176* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
4177  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
4178  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
4179  recurrence of that).
4180
4181* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
4182  than /usr/doc/survex.
4183
4184* aven:
4185
4186  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
4187
4188  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
4189    nicer at larger sizes.
4190
4191  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
4192    with GLX >= 1.3.
4193
4194  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
4195
4196  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
4197    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
4198    required libraries set up for building releases.
4199
4200  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
4201
4202  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
4203
4204  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
4205    rendered with icons on some platforms.
4206
4207  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
4208    ISO8859-1).
4209
4210  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
4211    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
4212
4213  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
4214    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
4215
4216* cavern:
4217
4218  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
4219    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
4220    fatal error!
4221
4222  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
4223    format to output.  (ticket#21)
4224
4225* img library:
4226
4227  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
4228    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
4229
4230* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
4231  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
4232
4233Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
4234
4235* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
4236  Portuguese, and US English.
4237
4238* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
4239  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
4240
4241* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
4242  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
4243
4244* img.c:
4245
4246  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
4247
4248  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
4249
4250* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
4251
4252* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
4253  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
4254  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
4255  translated.
4256
4257Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
4258
4259* aven:
4260
4261  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
4262    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
4263
4264  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
4265    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
4266    addresses ticket#12.
4267
4268  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
4269    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
4270    consistent shape.
4271
4272  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
4273    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
4274    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
4275    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
4276
4277  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
4278    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
4279
4280  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
4281
4282  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
4283    more places.
4284
4285  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
4286    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
4287
4288* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
4289
4290* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
4291  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
4292
4293* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
4294
4295* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
4296  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
4297  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
4298  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
4299  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
4300  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
4301
4302* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
4303  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
4304  redirecting to it.
4305
4306* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
4307  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
4308  I/O).
4309
4310* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
4311  headers.
4312
4313* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
4314
4315* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
4316  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
4317
4318* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
4319
4320Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
4321
4322* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
4323
4324* aven:
4325
4326  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
4327    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
4328    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
4329    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
4330
4331  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
4332
4333  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
4334    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
4335    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
4336    a number.
4337
4338  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
4339    log window.
4340
4341  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
4342    various cases.
4343
4344  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
4345    (ticket#9)
4346
4347  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
4348    namespace with its own "Point" class.
4349
4350  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
4351    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
4352
4353  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
4354
4355  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
4356    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
4357
4358* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
4359  give them before.
4360
4361* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
4362  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
4363  point looking for them now.
4364
4365* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
4366  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
4367  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
4368  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
4369
4370* manual:
4371
4372  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
4373
4374  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
4375    (change taken from 1.0).
4376
4377* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
4378
4379Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
4380
4381* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
4382
4383* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
4384
4385* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
4386
4387* aven:
4388
4389  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
4390
4391  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
4392    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
4393    seem to be Unicode now).
4394
4395  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
4396    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
4397
4398  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
4399    text on the survey pane:
4400
4401    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
4402
4403    - Character spacing is improved.
4404
4405    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
4406
4407  + "About" dialog:
4408
4409    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
4410      bug reporting.
4411
4412    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
4413      modern gfx card.
4414
4415    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
4416
4417  + Processing .svx files:
4418
4419    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
4420
4421    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
4422      than opening a separate frame for it.
4423
4424    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
4425
4426    - Fix small memory leak.
4427
4428  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
4429    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
4430    such a name.
4431
4432  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
4433
4434  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
4435    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
4436    invocations.
4437
4438  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
4439
4440  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
4441
4442  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
4443
4444* Documentation:
4445
4446  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
4447
4448  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
4449    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
4450    together isn't very useful.
4451
4452  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
4453
4454  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
4455    the FSF website.
4456
4457  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
4458    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
4459    the source code.
4460
4461* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
4462  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
4463
4464* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
4465  package from the source tarball.
4466
4467* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
4468  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
4469
4470Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
4471
4472* aven:
4473
4474  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
4475
4476  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
4477
4478  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
4479    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
4480    names/crosses).
4481
4482Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
4483
4484* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
4485
4486* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
4487
4488* aven:
4489
4490  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
4491
4492  + Fix character spacing.
4493
4494  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
4495    proportional fonts.
4496
4497  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
4498    rather than the filename.
4499
4500  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
4501
4502  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
4503    depth colouring.
4504
4505  + Add "Colour by Error".
4506
4507  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
4508
4509  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
4510
4511  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
4512
4513  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
4514
4515  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
4516
4517  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
4518
4519  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
4520
4521  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
4522    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
4523
4524  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
4525
4526  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
4527    default.
4528
4529* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
4530  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
4531
4532* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
4533  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
4534
4535* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
4536
4537* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
4538
4539Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
4540
4541* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
4542  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
4543  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
4544  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
4545  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
4546
4547* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
4548  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
4549  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
4550
4551* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
4552  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
4553  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
4554
4555* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
4556  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
4557  allowed).
4558
4559* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
4560
4561* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4562
4563* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
4564
4565Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
4566
4567* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
4568  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
4569
4570* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
4571  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
4572  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
4573
4574* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
4575  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
4576  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
4577  the new "*data passage" style.
4578
4579* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
4580  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
4581
4582* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
4583  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
4584  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
4585  some cases.
4586
4587* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
4588  with no survey loaded.
4589
4590* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
4591
4592* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
4593  loaded a survey.
4594
4595* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
4596
4597* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
4598
4599* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
4600  doesn't exist.
4601
4602* Updated French and Italian translations.
4603
4604* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
4605  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
4606
4607* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
4608  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
4609  update their copy).
4610
4611* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
4612  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
4613  trying to compile).
4614
4615Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
4616
4617* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
4618  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
4619
4620* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
4621  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
4622  has been disabled.
4623
4624* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
4625  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
4626  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
4627  time.
4628
4629* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
4630  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
4631  highlighted stations.
4632
4633* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
4634
4635* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
4636  the tilt from plan to elevation.
4637
4638* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
4639  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
4640
4641* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
4642  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
4643  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
4644
4645* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
4646  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
4647
4648* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
4649
4650* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
4651
4652* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
4653
4654* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
4655  run by an unprivileged user.
4656
4657* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
4658  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
4659  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
4660
4661* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
4662  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
4663
4664* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
4665
4666* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
4667  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
4668
4669* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
4670  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
4671
4672* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
4673  if it isn't.
4674
4675* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
4676  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
4677
4678* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
4679  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
4680
4681* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
4682  reset to default view as well).
4683
4684* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
4685  empty.
4686
4687* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
4688  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
4689
4690* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
4691  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
4692  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
4693
4694* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
4695  and non-zero width lines.
4696
4697* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
4698  was turned on.
4699
4700* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
4701  not always being fully written.
4702
4703Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
4704
4705* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
4706  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
4707  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
4708  date near the middle of that period).
4709
4710* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
4711  with MS Windows).
4712
4713* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
4714  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
4715  several surveys in the same directory).
4716
4717* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
4718  our check for them to include that knowledge.
4719
4720* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
4721
4722* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
4723  moved off a station.
4724
4725* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
4726  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
4727
4728* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
4729
4730* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
4731  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
4732
4733* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
4734  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
4735  dialogs.
4736
4737* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
4738  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
4739
4740* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
4741  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
4742  introduced in 1.1.6).
4743
4744* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
4745  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
4746  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
4747
4748* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
4749  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
4750
4751* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
4752
4753* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
4754
4755Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
4756
4757* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
4758  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
4759
4760* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
4761  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
4762  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
4763  3d file.
4764
4765* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
4766
4767* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
4768
4769* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
4770  Instead turn off depth colouring.
4771
4772* aven: Export as HPGL added.
4773
4774* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
4775  Martin Green).
4776
4777* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
4778  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
4779  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
4780
4781* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
4782
4783* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
4784  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
4785
4786* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
4787  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
4788  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
4789  of everything else.
4790
4791* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
4792  presentation icons.
4793
4794* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
4795  keyboard focus there.
4796
4797* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
4798
4799* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
4800
4801* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
4802
4803* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
4804
4805* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
4806  language to use for messages.
4807
4808* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
4809  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
4810
4811* Removed old printer drivers.
4812
4813* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
4814  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
4815
4816Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
4817
4818* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
4819
4820* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
4821
4822* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4823  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
4824
4825* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
4826  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
4827
4828* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
4829
4830* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
4831  underground legs is toggled.
4832
4833* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
4834  attached to the previous data.
4835
4836* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
4837  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
4838  them.
4839
4840Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
4841
4842* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4843
4844* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
4845  continental European countries).
4846
4847* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
4848  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
4849  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
4850
4851* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
4852
4853* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
4854  they're needed.
4855
4856* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
4857
4858* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
4859
4860* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
4861
4862* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
4863  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
4864  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
4865
4866* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
4867
4868Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
4869
4870* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4871
4872* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
4873
4874* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
4875
4876* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
4877
4878* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
4879
4880* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
4881
4882* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
4883  when there's a presentation loaded.
4884
4885* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
4886  in cave view.
4887
4888* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
4889
4890* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
4891  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
4892  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
4893
4894* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
4895  filename for file history and window title.
4896
4897* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
4898  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
4899  only needed with GTK1.2.
4900
4901* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
4902
4903* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
4904
4905* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
4906
4907* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
4908
4909Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
4910
4911* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
4912  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
4913  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
4914
4915* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
4916  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
4917
4918* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
4919  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
4920  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
4921  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
4922
4923* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
4924
4925* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
4926  with --help and --version.
4927
4928* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
4929  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
4930  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
4931  Fixed all these problems.
4932
4933* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
4934  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
4935  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
4936
4937* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
4938  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
4939  sources.
4940
4941* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
4942
4943* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
4944
4945* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
4946  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
4947
4948* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
4949  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
4950  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
4951  animating.
4952
4953* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
4954
4955* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
4956
4957* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
4958  to this branch.
4959
4960* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
4961
4962  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
4963
4964  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
4965
4966  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
4967
4968* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
4969
4970* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
4971  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
4972
4973* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
4974
4975* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
4976  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
4977
4978* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
4979
4980* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
4981  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
4982  for anyone building from CVS).
4983
4984* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
4985
4986* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
4987
4988* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
4989
4990* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
4991
4992* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
4993  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
4994  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
4995
4996* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
4997  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
4998
4999* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
5000
5001* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
5002  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
5003  loaded).
5004
5005* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
5006
5007Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
5008
5009* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
5010  startup.
5011
5012* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
5013  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
5014
5015Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
5016
5017* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
5018  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
5019  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
5020
5021* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
5022  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
5023  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
5024
5025* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
5026  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
5027  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
5028
5029* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
5030
5031* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
5032  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
5033
5034* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
5035  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
5036
5037* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
5038  better use of screen space.
5039
5040* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
5041
5042* aven: Perspective view.
5043
5044* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
5045
5046* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
5047  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
5048
5049* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
5050  and load/save/run them.
5051
5052* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
5053
5054* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
5055
5056* aven: Depth fogging option.
5057
5058* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
5059
5060* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
5061
5062* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
5063  showing the surface legs.
5064
5065* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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