I have just discovered a wonderous thing. Where
surface points in a survey centreline are included in a map, the labels will
self organise so that they don’t overlap. See example 1 and 2 attached.
This effect goes away I think when the points are
included in a scrap.
It also does not have effect between separate map
objects.
Is this default therion behaviour, or is it directly
inherited from
Could it be implemented in outputs derived from scrap
drawings?
Now on to my short-term deadline question!
Why might example 1 have +s in on all the points and example
2 have all the +s missing?
I have not done any redefinition of points (unless by
accident, and then they should be identical), and I think my symbol-show,
symbol-hides are similar (though not the same I admit).
Both the images are from the same dataset, just in
different regions a few km apart, and also in different parallel branches of
the survey structure, so somewhat independent of each other.
Both have caves displayed in a similar manner to
example 2, it’s just that the caves in example 1 were not included in the
screenshot.
As you can see, the map structure in example 1 is
very simple (the old paper cave map was traced in outline only in therion),
whereas example 2 has perhaps 100 maps as it is a 15km cave drawn entirely with
therion. I have turned off the layers which would have made the image
confusing.
Any guesses as to which symbol-show (or other
statement) directly effects the + part of the point symbol, as I would like to
show them in both cases?
I’m also still looking for a way to show the
labels for fixed points (and leave other point labels unaffected). What
is the ‘property’ that
Bruce