I have only had to do the 'position with a few lines and points. To achieve this I moved one point, a station as it happens, then looked at the difference in x and y co-ordinates from the old and new position. I then manually added these to all the other points by editing the text file manually. I only had about 30 points, so was lazy and just did it manually. However a regular expression search and replace would not be that difficult to write! Andrew On 10/08/15 20:15, torstein finnesand wrote:
Thanks to Xavier, Adam and Martin for the answers.
Yes, I do copy/paste from one file to the other using text editor, - the problem is that the pasted objects are not positioned in the correct place. Actually, my situation is described in chapter 5.2.5 in this page:
http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/tbe:wiki5?s[]=pdftex
The text says that copy/paste is not enough: "... the graphical elements have coordinates in different frames of reference. Even if the two scraps have the same ”-scale”, the frame is given by the positions of the points of type “station”."
After the copy/paste, the text says "Now you can open the second file with the map editor of xtherion and position the elements that you pasted in in the proper places." The keyword for me is "position". But I haven't found a simple way to move all the new objects into their proper places. It takes a lot of time If have to move the objects one by one, in particular for the lines.
The cave we are drawing is a maze. Many scraps and many connections. Not always easy to get good scraps & joins, :-)
Torstein