Now that Map has some seriously complex deductions, it's about time

it had a command-line solver. In order to do this, I've had to
expose the internal region numbering because the solver has to have
some way to state which region it means; and in any case it's also
useful to have human-visible region numbering so that two people can
discuss a puzzle they're solving together. So pressing L during play
now toggles the display of region numbers; and `mapsolver' uses
those same numbers when showing its working and its solutions.

[originally from svn r6244]

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diff --git a/puzzles.but b/puzzles.but
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@@ -1640,6 +1640,13 @@ you think the region \e{might} be that colour. A region can contain
 stipples in multiple colours at once. (This is often useful at the
 harder difficulty levels.)
 
+If you press L during play, the game will toggle display of a number
+in each region of the map. This is useful if you want to discuss a
+particular puzzle instance with a friend \dash having an unambiguous
+name for each region is much easier than trying to refer to them all
+by names such as \q{the one down and right of the brown one on the
+top border}.
+
 (All the actions described in \k{common-actions} are also available.)
 
 \H{map-parameters} \I{parameters, for Map}Map parameters