# Surface Evolver Newsletter no. 19

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                           Surface Evolver Newsletter 19
                                August 20, 2005

                          by Ken Brakke, brakke@susqu.edu

      Surface Evolver version 2.26 is now available at
      http://www.susqu.edu/brakke/evolver/evolver.htm.
      This is the first full official new version release since
      version 2.24 in October, 2004.

      Announcement of interest to fans of Joseph Plateau:
      In my spare time, I have been doing an amateur translation of
      Plateau's famous 1873 book on soap films and surface tension
      phenomena.  You may find the results at
      http://www.susqu.edu/brakke/PlateauBook/PlateauBook.html.

      New features and changes:

      PDF version of the manual has been improved, with bookmarks and links.

      Runtime help command now finds its keyword information from a new
      separate help text file, rather than extracting it from the HTML
      version of the documentation.

      Added "quietload" toggle to supress echoing of command files being
      read in; also corresponding "-Q" command line option.

      Quoted strings can be concatenated on input, for example,
         printf "This is a " "long format string.\n"

      New "reverse_orientation" command to internally reverse the orientation
      of selected edges and facets.

      Added "eigenvalues" array, so user can access all eigenvalues
      produced by "ritz", e.g. "print eigenvalues[2]".

      Added "binary_printf" command to write binary files for external
      applications needing a binary format.

      Piping of command output with | to external commands now works in
      Windows like it does in unix.

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