[therion] How to change settings for just a few readings?

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:29:51PM +0200, Stacho Mudrak wrote:

>> Olly Betts wrote:
>>
>
>>> >The only solution I can see is to track which settings are in effect and
>>> >reset them all after the *end.  That's just about OK for automated
>>> >conversion if nobody's going to want to edit the result, but it must be
>>> >a right headache for anyone who has tried to hand convert a dataset so
>>> >I'm wondering if there's some way to express this situation.
>
>>
>> No, there is no such possibility. You have to repeat calibration every
>> time it changes. I would rewrite your example this way:
>>
>>   encoding iso8859-1
>>     survey test -title "test"
>>       centreline
>>       calibrate tape 1
>>       1 2 10 0 0
>>       calibrate tape 2
>>       2 3 10 0 0
>>       calibrate tape 1
>>       3 4 10 0 0
>>     endcentreline
>>   endsurvey


Ick.

>> I'm just wondering, whether these situations are so common...


It happens 8 times in CUCC's Austria dataset.

Cheers,
    Olly