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## New features in 3.3

Despite what we said when releasing GMT 3.2, a few enhancements have found their way into GMT 3.3. These are:

Projections:
  We have added three new projections: The equidistant conic (-JD), Van der Grinten (-JV), and Eckert IV (-JKf). 1.1

pstext.c:
  Added typesetting of whole paragraphs (-M).

gmtmath.c:
  Added the standard -H option, and the function DILOG.

grdmath.c:
  Added the function DILOG.

pslib.c:
  Added `ps_imagemask` for transparent bitmaps, `ps_words` for paragraph typesetting, and `ps_flush` for buffer flushing.

gmt_support.c:
  Understands that fore- or background color in -Gp can be - which means transparency.

psimage.c:
  -Gf- or -Gb- means transparency.

grdimage.c:
  New -G[f|b]rgb option to make transparent color masks from otherwise black/white 1-bit images.

pscontour.c:
  Added -A- to force deactivation of all contour labels.

grdcontour.c:
  Same.

sample1d.c:
  Handles -N file that spans the range of several -M segments.

grdreformat.c:
  Now skips comments in the gmtformats.d file.

gmtmath.c:
  Added -Q shorthand option for scalar math.

pscoast.c:
  Added -bo option for use with -M.

gmtselect.c:
  Added -Cf for using (fast) Flat earth rather than (slow) great circle distance calculations.

xyz2grd.c:
  Added -S[file] option to simply swap the byte order and write out new table. Added H and I for unsigned short and ints. -L and xyz input will now enforce grid periodicity.

grd2xyz.c:
  Added H and I for unsigned short and ints.

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