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1Changes in 1.0.40 (2011-09-21):
2
3(Almost all backported from 1.1.13-1.2.0)
4
5* Translation updates for most languages.
6
7* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
8
9* Recognise .3d file format versions 6 and 7 so you can load .3d files
10  processed by 1.1.12 and later.
11
12* Documentation:
13
14  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe) and v7 format.
15
16  + Tilt up in aven, xcaverot, and caverot is apostrophe, not comma!
17
18  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
19
20  + Update INSTALL.
21
22  + doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
23
24  + (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't
25    documenting an actual command).
26
27  + (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex
28    rather than /usr/doc/survex.
29
30  + (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
31    atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
32    docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
33    recurrence of that).
34
35  + (Unix version): Fix \ to appear correctly in 'man print.ini'.
36
37* aven:
38
39  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
40    (ticket#9)
41
42  + Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it has fired
43    to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error dialogs.
44
45  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
46    rather than the filename.
47
48  + Improve SVG output compatibility.
49
50  + Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers and
51    non-zero width lines.
52
53  + Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data was
54    turned on.
55
56  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
57    rendered with icons on some platforms.
58
59  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
60
61* cavern:
62
63  + Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't give
64    them before.
65
66  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
67    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
68    fatal error!
69
70  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
71    format to output.  (ticket#21)
72
73* cad3d: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
74
75* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
76  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
77
78* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
79
80* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
81  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
82
83* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
84  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
85  redirecting to it.
86
87* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
88  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
89
90* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
91  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
92  I/O).
93
94* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
95  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
96
97* (MS Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
98  version of InnoSetup, which gives a smaller download.
99
100* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
101  run by an unprivileged user.
102
103* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
104  installer builder we use) and include installer translations for all
105  languages which InnoSetup officially supports, plus UK English and Romanian.
106
107* (MS Windows version): aven: Include all supported translations of messages
108  for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
109
110* (Mac OS X version): Backport buildmacosx.sh improvements from 1.2.0.
111
112* (Mac OS X version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS
113  X headers.
114
115* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
116  package from the source tarball.
117
118Changes in 1.0.39:
119
120* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
121
122* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
123  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
124
125* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
126  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).  Bug introduced in 1.0.38.
127
128* (Unix version): Debian: Updated "Build-Depends:" for the new X library
129  packaging; Upgrade to debhelper >= 4.
130
131Changes in 1.0.38 (all backported from 1.1.7):
132
133* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
134  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
135
136* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
137  language to use for messages.
138
139* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
140  Martin Green).
141
142* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
143
144* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
145
146* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
147  continental European countries).
148
149* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
150  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
151  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
152
153* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
154
155* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
156  in cave view.
157
158* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
159
160* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
161  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
162  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
163
164* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
165  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this backported in 1.0.36 failed because
166  __WXGTK12__ is set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so it is true for
167  GTK+ 2.0 too!
168
169* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
170  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
171
172* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
173  keyboard focus there.
174
175* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
176  with MS Windows).
177
178* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
179  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
180  several surveys in the same directory).
181
182* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
183  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
184  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
185
186* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
187  attached to the previous data.
188
189* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
190  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
191  them.
192
193* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
194
195Changes in 1.0.37:
196
197* cavern: Also ignore any arguments after "*data passage" which makes this
198  feature actually useful as intended.
199
200* aven: Recognise .3d file format versions 4 and 5 so you can load .3d files
201  processed by 1.1.x test builds.
202
203* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
204  filename for file history and window title.
205
206Changes in 1.0.36:
207
208* cavern: Ignore "*data passage" data style so you can process files containing
209  LRUD data for Survex 1.1.3 and later.
210
211* cavern: Fix assertion failure when handling a survey with a station only
212  attached by a nosurvey leg.
213
214* aven: The bearing used for a printout now defaults to the current view.
215  (This feature was accidentally broken between 1.0.31 and 1.0.32).
216
217* Changes backported from 1.1.3:
218
219  + aven: Improve initial window sizing and placement on multimonitor
220    displays when using wx2.4 or earlier.
221
222  + testsuite: Fix cavern.tst to report misspelled test names and
223    make badnewline test case actually run and actually pass.
224
225  + (Unix version): aven: Only add toolbar margins for gtk1.2
226
227  + (Unix version): configure: Updated check for wx version.
228
229Changes in 1.0.35:
230
231* aven: Fix printing which was deciding how many pages to spread the plot over
232  by looking at the whole paper size, not the printable area.
233
234* aven: When exporting, omit surface data if it's not being shown at the
235  moment.  Also omit unnecessary MOVE ops from generated files (which saves
236  quite a lot of space when surface data is turned off).
237
238* (Unix Version): Set Aven's icon on non-Windows platforms too.
239
240* extend: Added documentation and test cases for the new extend features.
241
242* manual: Fix example of setting decimal separator.
243
244* printxbm: Fixed test program printxbm to compile.
245
246* Include syntax colouring mode for .svx files for the vim editor, written
247  by David Loeffler.
248
249Changes in 1.0.34:
250
251* extend: Added changes from John Pybus which allow you to specify a
252  configuration file to control how the centreline is extended - e.g.
253  where to fold and where to break loops.
254
255* (MS Windows version): Fixed detection of codepage 1250 (used for Slovak and
256  Romanian) - this should fix problems with missing accents.
257
258Changes in 1.0.33:
259
260* aven,printwin: Fixed bug which would sometimes pick one too few pages
261  vertically resulting in the survey escaping off the top of the topmost
262  pages.
263
264* aven: Changed the toner-wasting, hard-to-measure-exactly alternately filled
265  scale bar to a simple line with ticks.
266
267* aven: SVG export fixes: second and subsequent exports had bogus extra "</g>";
268  Fixed to invert all Y coordinates, not just some; Fixed tags for layers.
269
270* aven: Added EPS export option.
271
272* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed inverted icons.
273
274* aven: Initial window size and position will not straddle monitors if you have
275  multiple monitors connected to one machine (needs wxWidgets 2.5 to work on
276  Unix).
277
278* (Unix version): aven: Fixed initial sizing problems when building with gtk2.
279
280* Minor documentation updates.
281
282Changes in 1.0.32:
283
284* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
285
286* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
287  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
288
289* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
290  extend elevations.
291
292* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
293
294* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
295  default button.
296
297* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
298  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
299
300* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
301
302* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
303  - previously this was being ignored.
304
305* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
306
307* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
308  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
309  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
310  pixel too small on Windows.
311
312* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
313  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
314  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
315
316* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
317  with pretty much every other application.
318
319* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
320  within aven.
321
322* aven: Updated a few icons.
323
324* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
325
326* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
327
328* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
329  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
330  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
331  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
332  doubt anyone is still using that...
333
334* Updates to German translation.
335
336Changes in 1.0.31:
337
338* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
339  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
340
341* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
342  grid is enabled or not.
343
344* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
345
346* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
347  translations.
348
349* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
350
351Changes in 1.0.30:
352
353* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
354
355* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
356
357* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
358
359* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
360  flagged as surface and underground.
361
362* Romanian translation mostly completed.
363
364* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
365
366Changes in 1.0.29:
367
368* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
369  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
370
371* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
372
373* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
374
375* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
376  from John Pybus).
377
378* Romanian translation started.
379
380* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
381  menu files.
382
383Changes in 1.0.28:
384
385* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
386  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
387
388Changes in 1.0.27:
389
390* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
391  layers.
392
393* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
394
395Changes in 1.0.26:
396
397* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
398  calculated as zero.
399
400* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
401
402* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
403
404* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
405
406* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
407  we must apply resources *after* installing.
408
409* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
410
411* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
412  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
413  of their choice.
414
415* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
416  installed.
417
418* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
419  worked).
420
421* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
422  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
423
424* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
425
426* Documentation updated.
427
428* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
429  documentation!
430
431* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
432
433* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
434
435* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
436  most of them.
437
438* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
439
440Changes in 1.0.25:
441
442* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
443
444* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
445  the box on more Unix platforms.
446
447* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
448
449* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
450  insurmountable technical problems.
451
452Changes in 1.0.24:
453
454* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
455
456* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
457  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
458
459* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
460
461* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
462
463* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
464  (and probably some other Unix versions).
465
466* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
467
468Changes in 1.0.23:
469
470* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
471  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
472  to manual.
473
474* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
475
476* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
477  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
478
479* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
480  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
481  Windows.
482
483* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
484
485* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
486
487Changes in 1.0.22:
488
489* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
490  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
491
492* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
493  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
494  code).
495
496Changes in 1.0.21:
497
498* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
499  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
500  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
501  Compass .MAK files.
502
503* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
504  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
505
506* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
507
508* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
509  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
510  per station.
511
512* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
513  unusual circumstances.
514
515* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
516  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
517  over an previous version.
518
519Changes in 1.0.20:
520
521* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
522
523* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
524  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
525  correction was about 57 times too large!)
526
527* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
528  insert a survey separator character.
529
530* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
531
532Changes in 1.0.19:
533
534* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
535  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
536  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
537
538* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
539  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
540  files are handled).
541
542* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
543  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
544
545* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
546
547* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
548  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
549  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
550
551* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
552
553* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
554  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
555  crash.
556
557* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
558
559* Documentation: minor updates.
560
561Changes in 1.0.18:
562
563* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
564
565* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
566  instead.
567
568* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
569  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
570
571* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
572  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
573  to the aven subpackage.
574
575* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
576
577* Updated TODO list.
578
579Changes in 1.0.17:
580
581* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
582  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
583  its own icon.
584
585* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
586  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
587  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
588  refresh the view.
589
590* Minor update to manual.
591
592Changes in 1.0.16:
593
594* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
595  programs from finding the message files.
596
597* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
598  files.
599
600Changes in 1.0.15:
601
602* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
603  programs from finding the message files.
604
605* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
606  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
607  obtained with the right mouse button.
608
609Changes in 1.0.14:
610
611* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
612  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
613  from Activeware.
614
615* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
616  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
617  separator between survey name and station name.
618
619* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
620  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
621
622* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
623  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
624
625* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
626
627* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
628  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
629
630* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
631
632* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
633  DIRECTION reading.
634
635* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
636
637* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
638  have taken up.
639
640* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
641  once again.  Added regression test for this.
642
643* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
644  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
645
646* Updated documentation.
647
648Changes in 1.0.13:
649
650* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
651  connecting arbitrary stations.
652
653* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
654  join.
655
656* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
657  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
658  and everything should work exactly as before.
659
660* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
661  currently translated.
662
663Changes in 1.0.12:
664
665* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
666
667* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
668
669* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
670  (both cover Eastern European languages).
671
672* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
673  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
674  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
675  permission to include the icon).
676
677* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
678  again.
679
680* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
681  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
682
683* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
684
685* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
686
687Changes in 1.0.11:
688
689* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
690  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
691  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
692  and as intended on 2.3.
693
694* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
695  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
696  '.').
697
698* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
699  autorotation.
700
701* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
702
703* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
704
705* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
706  double-clicking or from the command line.
707
708* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
709
710* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
711
712* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
713
714* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
715
716* Updates to Italian translation.
717
718* Minor documentation updates.
719
720Changes in 1.0.10:
721
722* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
723  names.
724
725* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
726  successfully.
727
728* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
729  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
730  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
731
732* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
733  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
734
735* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
736  factor was being applied backwards!)
737
738* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
739  be opened.
740
741* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
742
743* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
744
745* Updates to German and Italian translations.
746
747Changes in 1.0.9:
748
749* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
750
751* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
752
753* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
754  end of each line).
755
756* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
757  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
758  them).
759
760* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
761
762Changes in 1.0.8:
763
764* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
765
766* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
767  responsiveness.
768
769* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
770  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
771  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
772
773* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
774  the program).
775
776* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
777
778* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
779  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
780
781* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
782  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
783
784* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
785  right mouse button.
786
787* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
788  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
789  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
790
791* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
792  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
793  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
794  approximately 1mm/pixel.
795
796* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
797  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
798
799* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
800  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
801
802* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
803
804* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
805  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
806
807* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
808  pages on rare occasions.
809
810* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
811
812* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
813
814* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
815  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
816  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
817  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
818  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
819
820* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
821  underground surveys.
822
823* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
824
825* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
826  now it gives the correct error message.
827
828* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
829  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
830
831* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
832  of data which was rejected because of an error.
833
834* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
835
836* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
837  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
838
839* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
840  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
841  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
842  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
843  by default).
844
845* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
846  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
847  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
848
849* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
850  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
851  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
852
853* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
854  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
855  been removed.
856
857Changes in 1.0.7:
858
859* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
860
861Changes in 1.0.6:
862
863* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
864
865* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
866  exit with Delete) improved.
867
868* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
869  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
870
871* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
872
873* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
874  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
875
876* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
877  with no clino information).
878
879* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
880  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
881
882* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
883
884* Spell-checked documentation.
885
886Changes in 1.0.5:
887
888* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
889  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
890
891* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
892
893* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
894  structure for Compass to read them now.
895
896* Documentation updates.
897
898Changes in 1.0.4:
899
900* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
901  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
902
903* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
904  output format.
905
906* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
907
908* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
909  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
910
911* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
912  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
913  on Microsoft Windows.
914
915* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
916
917* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
918
919* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
920  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
921  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
922  special case better.
923
924* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
925  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
926  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
927  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
928
929* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
930  out packaging now...
931
932* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
933
934* Documentation updates.
935
936Changes in 1.0.3:
937
938* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
939  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
940  of degrees.
941
942* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
943
944* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
945
946* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
947  written.
948
949* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
950  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
951
952* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
953
954Changes in 1.0.2:
955
956* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
957  print.ini etc.
958
959* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
960  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
961
962* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
963
964* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
965
966* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
967
968* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
969
970* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
971  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
972
973* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
974  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
975
976* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
977  .3d files.
978
979Changes in 1.0.1:
980
981* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
982  ticks.
983
984* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
985
986Changes in 1.0.0:
987
988* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
989
990* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
991  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
992
993* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
994  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
995  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
996
997* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
998
999* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1000  instead of "survex file.svx".
1001
1002* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1003  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1004  with a lower optimisation level.
1005
1006* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1007  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1008  "in directory" build.
1009
1010* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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