On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:58:47 +1000, Michael Lake <mikel@speleonics.com.au> wrote:
Its a big list but it is quite static. However it does allow countries to maintain the use of some of their own symbols - for instance in Australia we will be retaining a few of the older symbols. Thus cavers will want to have small customised sets. We reallly therefore need to load them at runtime via a library or a package like LaTeX does. Probably as plain text mpost macros in a file that is called up by the thconfig file.
Even with the current version of therion, if we would have metapost code for ASF (Australian Speleological Federation) symbols, a command like export map -layout symbols-ASF should work. All we need to do is to clean the mess, we have in the therion - metapost cooperation (a lot of old macros, some bugs, names of macros etc.). I believe a week or two should be enought for this. S.