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cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
*solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
them.

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