Nick

This may or may not help, but you have stumbled, in part, into a topic I explored back in July 2017 (if seems much longer than that), with mixed feedback!

https://www.mail-archive.com/therion@speleo.sk/msg06555.html

At the time I made some changes based on feedback received.  I have not looked at it for a while, but have attached the file in its current state, with changes tracked.

It is still a bit rough I’m sorry.

Bruce

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OK as is normally the case with these things I spotted the error within five minutes of asking for help, but it has raised a another question.

My problem was quite simply I had no survey/end survey wrapper. I have been using this index file for over two years and never noticed however it has worked perfectly and produced what I needed.

I now ask why did the index.th compile OK with the other 18 surveys listed in it.

The only difference between the first 18 surveys and the last non-working one was that in each scrap of the 18 previous surveys I used the option -station-names “” “@surveyname”. I was shown this when I started learning Therion but never really new why. When using this option to make any survey.th compile I have to make sure the map/endmap is outside the survey/endsurvey wrapper.

With the my latest survey file I did not use the scrap option and just went with the “normal way” with everything in survey.th within the survey/endsurvey and then the index .th failed due to having no survey/endsurvey wrapper.

Clearly I do not yet fully understand the process even though I can make things work, so lots more reading I think. Does anyone know of a good explanation somewhere, most thing I read I find a little confusing.

Also if someone would like to explain the

-station-names “” “@surveyname” bit I would be very grateful.

I suspect I’m not the only one to have struggled with this.

Thanks for the previous answers guys.

Nick

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Nick

I’m guessing you have created a map that contains the survey only for your new cave, and a map which contains scraps or maps for your other caves.

I do this intentionally while I am drawing up a new  piece of passage, then remove the survey map once I am finished.

Bruce

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Subject: [Therion] Error When Adding A new Cave to Master Index

I have just added a small cave to my main index .th. Everything compiles but the pdf shows the new cave as shots and splays not as the normal walls etc you would expect in a map. All other caves display correctly as intended.

Has anyone point out what I am doing wrong.

Nick