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1* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
2
3* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
4  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
5
6* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
7  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
8 
9* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
10
11* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
12  underground legs is toggled.
13
14* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
15  attached to the previous data.
16
17* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
18  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
19  them.
20
21Changes in 1.1.4:
22
23* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
24
25* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
26  continental European countries).
27
28* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
29  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
30  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
31
32* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
33
34* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
35  they're needed.
36
37* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
38
39* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
40
41* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
42
43* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
44  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
45  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
46
47* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
48
49Changes in 1.1.3:
50
51* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
52
53* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
54
55* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
56
57* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
58
59* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
60
61* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
62
63* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
64  when there's a presentation loaded.
65
66* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
67  in cave view.
68
69* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
70
71* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
72  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
73  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
74
75* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
76  filename for file history and window title.
77
78* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
79  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
80  only needed with GTK1.2.
81
82* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
83
84* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
85
86* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
87
88* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
89
90Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
91
92* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
93  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
94  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
95
96* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
97  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
98
99* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
100  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
101  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
102  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
103
104* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
105
106* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
107  with --help and --version.
108
109* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
110  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
111  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
112  Fixed all these problems.
113
114* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
115  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
116  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
117
118* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
119  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
120  sources.
121
122* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
123
124* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
125
126* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
127  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
128
129* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
130  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
131  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
132  animating.
133
134* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
135
136* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
137
138* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
139  to this branch.
140
141* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
142
143  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
144
145  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
146
147  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
148
149* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
150
151* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
152  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
153
154* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
155
156* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
157  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
158
159* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
160
161* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
162  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
163  for anyone building from CVS).
164
165* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
166
167* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
168
169* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
170
171* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
172
173* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
174  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
175  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
176
177* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
178  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
179
180* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
181
182* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
183  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
184  loaded).
185
186* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
187
188Changes in 1.1.1:
189
190* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
191  startup.
192
193* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
194  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
195
196Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
197
198* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
199  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
200  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
201
202* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
203  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
204  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
205
206* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
207  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
208  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
209
210* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
211
212* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
213  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
214
215* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
216  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
217
218* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
219  better use of screen space.
220
221* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
222
223* aven: Perspective view.
224
225* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
226
227* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
228  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
229
230* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
231  and load/save/run them.
232
233* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
234
235* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
236
237* aven: Depth fogging option.
238
239* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
240
241* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
242
243* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
244  showing the surface legs.
245
246* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
247
248Changes in 1.0.32:
249
250* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
251
252* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
253  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
254
255* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
256  extend elevations.
257
258* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
259
260* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
261  default button.
262
263* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
264  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
265
266* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
267
268* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
269  - previously this was being ignored.
270
271* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
272
273* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
274  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
275  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
276  pixel too small on Windows.
277
278* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
279  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
280  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
281
282* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
283  with pretty much every other application.
284
285* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
286  within aven.
287
288* aven: Updated a few icons.
289
290* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
291
292* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
293
294* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
295  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
296  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
297  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
298  doubt anyone is still using that...
299
300* Updates to German translation.
301
302Changes in 1.0.31:
303
304* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
305  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
306
307* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
308  grid is enabled or not.
309
310* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
311
312* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
313  translations.
314
315* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
316
317Changes in 1.0.30:
318
319* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
320
321* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
322
323* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
324
325* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
326  flagged as surface and underground.
327
328* Romanian translation mostly completed.
329
330* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
331
332Changes in 1.0.29:
333
334* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
335  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
336
337* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
338
339* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
340
341* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
342  from John Pybus).
343
344* Romanian translation started.
345
346* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
347  menu files.
348
349Changes in 1.0.28:
350
351* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
352  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
353
354Changes in 1.0.27:
355
356* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
357  layers.
358
359* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
360
361Changes in 1.0.26:
362
363* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
364  calculated as zero.
365
366* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
367
368* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
369
370* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
371
372* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
373  we must apply resources *after* installing.
374
375* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
376
377* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
378  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
379  of their choice.
380
381* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
382  installed.
383
384* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
385  worked).
386
387* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
388  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
389
390* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
391
392* Documentation updated.
393
394* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
395  documentation!
396
397* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
398
399* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
400
401* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
402  most of them.
403
404* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
405
406Changes in 1.0.25:
407
408* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
409
410* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
411  the box on more Unix platforms.
412
413* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
414
415* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
416  insurmountable technical problems.
417
418Changes in 1.0.24:
419
420* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
421
422* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
423  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
424
425* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
426
427* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
428
429* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
430  (and probably some other Unix versions).
431
432* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
433
434Changes in 1.0.23:
435
436* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
437  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
438  to manual.
439
440* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
441
442* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
443  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
444
445* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
446  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
447  Windows.
448
449* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
450
451* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
452
453Changes in 1.0.22:
454
455* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
456  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
457
458* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
459  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
460  code).
461
462Changes in 1.0.21:
463
464* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
465  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
466  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
467  Compass .MAK files.
468
469* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
470  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
471
472* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
473
474* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
475  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
476  per station.
477
478* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
479  unusual circumstances.
480
481* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
482  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
483  over an previous version.
484
485Changes in 1.0.20:
486
487* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
488
489* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
490  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
491  correction was about 57 times too large!)
492
493* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
494  insert a survey separator character.
495
496* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
497
498Changes in 1.0.19:
499
500* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
501  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
502  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
503
504* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
505  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
506  files are handled).
507
508* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
509  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
510
511* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
512
513* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
514  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
515  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
516
517* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
518
519* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
520  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
521  crash.
522
523* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
524
525* Documentation: minor updates.
526
527Changes in 1.0.18:
528
529* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
530
531* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
532  instead.
533
534* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
535  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
536
537* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
538  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
539  to the aven subpackage.
540
541* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
542
543* Updated TODO list.
544
545Changes in 1.0.17:
546
547* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
548  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
549  its own icon.
550
551* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
552  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
553  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
554  refresh the view.
555
556* Minor update to manual.
557
558Changes in 1.0.16:
559
560* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
561  programs from finding the message files.
562
563* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
564  files.
565
566Changes in 1.0.15:
567
568* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
569  programs from finding the message files.
570
571* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
572  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
573  obtained with the right mouse button.
574
575Changes in 1.0.14:
576
577* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
578  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
579  from Activeware.
580
581* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
582  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
583  separator between survey name and station name.
584
585* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
586  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
587
588* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
589  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
590
591* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
592
593* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
594  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
595
596* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
597
598* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
599  DIRECTION reading.
600
601* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
602
603* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
604  have taken up.
605
606* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
607  once again.  Added regression test for this.
608
609* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
610  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
611
612* Updated documentation.
613
614Changes in 1.0.13:
615
616* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
617  connecting arbitrary stations.
618
619* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
620  join.
621
622* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
623  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
624  and everything should work exactly as before.
625
626* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
627  currently translated.
628
629Changes in 1.0.12:
630
631* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
632
633* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
634
635* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
636  (both cover Eastern European languages).
637
638* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
639  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
640  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
641  permission to include the icon).
642
643* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
644  again.
645
646* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
647  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
648
649* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
650
651* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
652
653Changes in 1.0.11:
654
655* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
656  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
657  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
658  and as intended on 2.3.
659
660* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
661  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
662  '.').
663
664* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
665  autorotation.
666
667* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
668
669* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
670
671* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
672  double-clicking or from the command line.
673
674* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
675
676* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
677
678* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
679
680* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
681
682* Updates to Italian translation.
683
684* Minor documentation updates.
685
686Changes in 1.0.10:
687
688* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
689  names.
690
691* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
692  successfully.
693
694* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
695  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
696  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
697
698* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
699  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
700
701* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
702  factor was being applied backwards!)
703
704* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
705  be opened.
706
707* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
708
709* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
710
711* Updates to German and Italian translations.
712
713Changes in 1.0.9:
714
715* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
716
717* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
718
719* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
720  end of each line).
721
722* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
723  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
724  them).
725
726* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
727
728Changes in 1.0.8:
729
730* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
731
732* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
733  responsiveness.
734
735* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
736  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
737  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
738
739* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
740  the program).
741
742* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
743
744* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
745  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
746
747* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
748  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
749
750* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
751  right mouse button.
752
753* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
754  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
755  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
756
757* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
758  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
759  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
760  approximately 1mm/pixel.
761
762* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
763  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
764
765* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
766  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
767
768* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
769
770* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
771  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
772
773* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
774  pages on rare occasions.
775
776* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
777
778* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
779
780* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
781  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
782  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
783  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
784  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
785
786* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
787  underground surveys.
788
789* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
790
791* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
792  now it gives the correct error message.
793
794* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
795  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
796
797* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
798  of data which was rejected because of an error.
799
800* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
801
802* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
803  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
804
805* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
806  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
807  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
808  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
809  by default).
810
811* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
812  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
813  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
814
815* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
816  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
817  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
818
819* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
820  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
821  been removed.
822
823Changes in 1.0.7:
824
825* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
826
827Changes in 1.0.6:
828
829* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
830
831* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
832  exit with Delete) improved.
833
834* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
835  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
836
837* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
838
839* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
840  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
841
842* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
843  with no clino information).
844
845* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
846  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
847
848* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
849
850* Spell-checked documentation.
851
852Changes in 1.0.5:
853
854* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
855  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
856
857* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
858
859* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
860  structure for Compass to read them now.
861
862* Documentation updates.
863
864Changes in 1.0.4:
865
866* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
867  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
868
869* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
870  output format.
871
872* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
873
874* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
875  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
876
877* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
878  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
879  on Microsoft Windows.
880
881* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
882
883* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
884
885* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
886  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
887  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
888  special case better.
889
890* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
891  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
892  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
893  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
894
895* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
896  out packaging now...
897
898* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
899
900* Documentation updates.
901
902Changes in 1.0.3:
903
904* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
905  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
906  of degrees.
907
908* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
909
910* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
911
912* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
913  written.
914
915* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
916  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
917
918* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
919
920Changes in 1.0.2:
921
922* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
923  print.ini etc.
924
925* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
926  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
927
928* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
929
930* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
931
932* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
933
934* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
935
936* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
937  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
938
939* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
940  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
941
942* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
943  .3d files.
944
945Changes in 1.0.1:
946
947* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
948  ticks.
949
950* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
951
952Changes in 1.0.0:
953
954* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
955
956* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
957  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
958
959* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
960  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
961  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
962
963* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
964
965* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
966  instead of "survex file.svx".
967
968* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
969  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
970  with a lower optimisation level.
971
972* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
973  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
974  "in directory" build.
975
976* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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