December 2007 - Therion

How to find most recent Therion Windows Install Files?
by Bruce Mutton 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Is there a way to seek out the most recent Windows install file on the Therion website? The page http://therion.speleo.sk/download.php gives only the link to the 0.5.1 files. (I imagine these are the most recent 'official' release) More recently Martin directed us to http://therion.speleo.sk/downloads/therion-update-20071114.exe, but I notice that there appears to be no link to this on the Therion site, it has to be typed or pasted directly to a web browser. http://therion.speleo.sk/downloads just redirects me to the home page. I suspect there is a more recent install file, based on previous posts, but as I don't know the date, it is tedious to find by trial and error. Perhaps I am missing something obvious? Thanks Bruce

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Printing xvi maps
by Ricardo Constantino 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello, I would like to print a map with Centerline, Left & Right lines (based on LRUD data). The XVI format has this nicelly, but I can't find a way to print out the xvi file. Thanks in advance, Ricardo (www.ENTRADA.tv)

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scrap help needed
by marco corvi 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

in the process of drawing a not-so-big xelev scrap got some wierd inside. what's wrong ? th (abridged) and th2 (draft) are attached. thconfig is a plain export of extended projection map. by the way, is there a point for water_drop (ie, vertical water flow) ? thanks, marco

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Hierarchy of Layouts, overiding symbol set symbols individually
by Bruce Mutton 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

I have a standard master thconfig file that contains two layouts, water-blue (copied from the rabbit cave example) and StandardLayout. I have other thconfig files that refer to the master file with an input command, as below; input ../StdFiles/thconfig-StdLayouts.thc copy water-blue # adopt blue water colour layout from 'input' file copy StandardLayout # adopt standard layout from 'input' file This works fine, except that when my StandardLayout contains, for example; symbol-set UIS # UIS, ASF, CCNP, SKBB then the symbol set always overrides and I don't get my blue fill colour. I have tried changing the order of the two 'copy' commands above, to no avail. There maybe something about this in the Therion Book but I'm not sure I understand it. For now I'm happy to leave out the 'symbol-set' command, but I foresee the day when I would adopt one of the other symbol sets and make personalised changes (such as water-blue). Any comments? Bruce

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Geological features
by Martin Lüthi 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hi The Therion / Loch ensemble is very impressive. Something I would like to do but don't know whether that is implemented, or would be easy to implement: geologic features. By this term I mean adding strike/dip data from fault planes, fold axes or layering to the input files. Then in Loch these planes would show up as planes cutting through the galleries. Having a feature like that would greatly enhance the ability to see how cave systems evolve along these geologic structures. Best, Martin

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Modular Reuse of thconfig Layouts
by Bruce Mutton 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

I have three caves entered into a folder tree as a hierarchal system, that can be plotted in a couple of variations for each individually or as a whole system. I find that I have two thconfig files for each combination that produce all of the types of maps I would like at this stage. This makes a total of eight thconfig files, each of which is getting quite large, but which are largely identical except in a few details. It's becoming difficult to manage these, and keep the bits that I'd like to be identical updated. I suspect that, like most of the rest of Therion, I can make use of a standard thconfig file that contains most of my favourite settings, allowing my eight specific thconfigs to be very concise. I have played around a bit, trying to save layouts in different files and using lines like; copy StandardLayout but 'StandardLayout' only seems to be visible from within the same file. Have had no luck with 'input', 'source' or 'select'. Probably I'm just missing out a bit of syntax or namespace visibility. Any suggestions

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