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cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
attached to the previous data.

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