Changes in version 3.4

• 896 new acronyms and a few reorganisations of categories.

Changes in version 3.3

• When you create an HTML page listing all the acronyms by a particular acronymist, you can now add a description of the person to appear at the top of the page.
• All web pages listing acronyms now link to the list of other acronyms by each acronymist listed in an acronym's credit. This only applies to acronymists who you've made such a list for.
• The web pages created per letter are slightly different - when they're split into several pages, the main index page shows more of the from and to acronyms of each page.
• 665 new acronyms.

Changes in version 3.2

• Numbered acronyms are now sorted properly instead of 2 coming after 10 and the like.
• A few bugs related to changing an acronym's categories when no category is selected were fixed
• The background pattern has changed.
• There are 517 new acronyms.

Changes in version 3.1

• The stack can now make Hall of Fame files like the one at http://acronyms.co.nz/halloffame.html, which can have however many positions as you like. The Hall of Fame file uses information generated when the stack make Acronymists' Acronym Lists, so you must make such files for the people you want included on the Hall of Fame before you make a Hall of Fame file.
• There have been a few changes to the category listing web pages which the stack creates - the main change is that acronyms on category pages now show which other categories they're in.
• Numerous bug fixes
• 590 new acronyms

Changes in version 3.0

• Categories - this is quite a big change, which is why I called it version 3.0. Each acronym can be assigned a category or categories. There is a hierarchy of categories and subcategories which can be manipulated from the Category browser/editor. There can also be aliases of categories inside other categories - for example, the category about not eating computer parts is a subcategory of the Computers category, but it can also be reached from the Food category. You can see which categories an acronym is in by clicking on it in the acronym list - a list of the categories will appear in the pink 'Categories' field. If you click on a category in that field, you can then click on the 'Show others' button to see the other acronyms and subcategories which are in that category, or you can take the acronym out of that category and/or put it in a different one. You can add new subcategories from the Category browser, or directly from the dialogue box asking which category to put an acronym in. In the Category browser, you can browse acronyms by category (obviously) but you can also move categories around, make aliases of categories, rename categories, or merge categories with other categories. You can also move groups of acronyms into other categories, to save having to move each acronym individually. Some guidelines on categorising acronyms are at the end of the Acronymising tips.
• The buttons which used to be at the bottom of the main window are now in a palette, to make room for the Categories field. Some of the buttons only work when you are viewing the acronyms, and not on any of the other screens.
• You can now make web pages with the acronyms grouped into categories, as at http://acronyms.co.nz/catindex.html.
• When you click the Make HTML button, you get a list of the different web pages you can make (rather than just an alert with buttons.) You can select one of them and either make the page(s) or click on 'What's this?' for a short description of what page(s) would be made.
• The rules for an acronym being valid have changed slightly. Previously, if you wanted to use a word which had to be capitalised (like I) but whose initial wasn't in the acronym, you could put it in (Parentheses) and the acronym checker would ignore it. However, that makes it difficult when you want to put a part of the expansion in parentheses for other reasons. Now, if you put a capitalised word in (Parentheses) the acronym checker will count it, but if you put it in [Brackets] it will be ignored by the acronym checker.
• Lots of new acronyms - including some insane categories about eating computer parts and paint!

Changes in version 2.2

• You can now 'link' to other acronyms in the acronym credit by surrounding the acronym with . The word(s) between the angle brackets must be exactly the same as the actual acronym you want to link to. The links also work on the web pages which the stack makes.
• When you add or import an incorrect acronym, the stack will tell you why it is not an acronym. This is very handy when you've made a really long one and don't know where you've gone wrong!
• There is no longer a problem with the stack sometimes trying to put too much text into a dialog box.
• There is the ability to add long alliterations by typing in, for example, A*10 as the acronym if you have ten words beginning with A. Alliterations are a bit of a spin-off from acronyms - we will release seperate update lists of alliterations for those who want them.
• The web pages generated are now split into several where there are a lot of acronyms beginning with a particular letter.
• I'm sure there are more changes that I've forgotten... most importantly though, there are a whole lot more acronyms.

Changes in version 2.1

• The web pages generated now have a random expansion of ACRONYMS (chosen from all the ones in the stack) in the headings instead of always 'A Casual Roundup Of Novelties in Your Message System.' The splash screen of the stack also has a random expansion on it.
• There is now a 'Sort' menu so you can choose how the acronym lists are sorted. With the ASCII sort, which was the only option in previous versions, an acronym such as 'A IS FOR APPLE' would come before 'AARDVARK' because of the space. Now you can choose 'Dictionary sort' to have the acronyms sorted like in a dictionary - ignoring punctuation. You can also sort acronyms by length. All of these sort styles can be either ascending or descending. Note that the Dictionary Sort takes a bit longer than the ASCII sort, so if you have a slow machine you might like to stick with ASCII sorting. Also, when you change the kind of sorting, the list for each letter is only resorted when you visit that letter, so if you create web pages with the acronyms in after changing the sorting, some pages might show the acronyms sorted differently from others.
• The messages shown while importing acronyms into the stack are more accurate. Previously as each acronym was read and prepared for entry the message would be shown that the acronym had been entered into the stack - in fact that happens during a pause after all the acronyms have been read.
• 560 new acronyms!

Changes in version 2.0

• The web pages generated now look okay in MSIE as well as Netscape
• The stack can now generate web pages listing the acronyms by a particular person and also 'tours' of acronyms. To make a tour, export the acronyms you want in the tour to a text file, then click 'Make HTML', click on 'Other Options,' and follow the instructions.
• The URL for the ACRONYMS website has changed.
• There's a new logo, and an improved splash screen.
• The graph now remembers the size you last viewed it at.
• A minor problem in the searching for acronyms containing a particular word (when you click on a word in an expansion or credit, or option-click on a word in the acronym list) has been fixed. The problem sometimes caused some occurances of the word to be missed out.
• Several small mistakes in the acronyms have been fixed.
• The 'import acronyms' button was changed so that it displays the number of acronyms entered while it is reading the file, and also, if the file is an update list it will not check to make sure each acronym is valid. This speeds up the importing of update lists as it was found that it takes far too long to import the first update list (857 acronyms) into version 1.0.1 of the stack. Also a small bug was fixed which had prevented the stack from importing 'improper' acronyms marked with a *.
• This 'Changes in version 2.0' section was added! Also there are a few more tips on using the stack in the 'Acronymising tips' section.

  and of course...

• A WHOLE LOT MORE ACRONYMS! (No, that isn't an acronym... yet.) 857 new ones, in fact.