Hi Stacho - Wow! Many thanks! This is awsome! I won't have a chance to actually try it until JM Begley gets this version compiled and into his RPM repository. Compiling Therion from source has never worked completely right for me, so I gave it up when the repository became available. This morning I see that a few other people have tried it. The sample maps they included show exactly what I was looking for. Based on that I am confident it will work for me when I get a new version. For what it's worth - I added the MetaPost segment to my files and recompiled the map. It did not produce any errors, though of course it also did not produce a boxed number. I am currently on version 5.4.1, April 2017, running on 64-bit Fedora 28. -- Bill Gee On Monday, October 1, 2018 3:08:10 PM CDT Stacho Mudrak via Therion wrote:
Hi Bill,
we have rearranged therion metapost code in latest commits and now (using last devel build) it should be possible to have boxed height labels just by using following code in your layout:
code metapost p_label_mode_height:=6; endcode
The magic number 6 stands for boxed label. See https://github.com/therion/therion/blob/master/mpost/thText.mp#L85 for list of all label modes.
Please let us know, if this is what you have been looking for or more complicated changes are needed.
S.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 23:35, Bill Gee via Therion <therion@speleo.sk>
wrote:
Hello everyone -
A common convention around Missouri cave mapping is to indicate the height change of a floor step by enclosing the value in a square box. This is not the same as ceiling height which is enclosed in a circle or oval.
I have been using the object "point height" for this. It works except there is nothing around the value. It just hangs out in space, so to speak.
I used the "-d" option to dump all the MetaPost and TeX code. I find no references in any of the files to objects of type height or passage-height, which implies that these two objects are not generated by MetaPost.
Is it possible to redefine the "point height" symbol so it draws a square box around the value?
Thanks! -- Bill Gee
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