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

[Stacho Mudrak]

There is no problem to add somethig like group-endgroup pair inside centerline, if it will really help you (or I can use just begin-end pair if you wish).

Then it could be rewritten this way:

centreline
  calibrate tape 1
  1 2 10 0 0
  group
  calibrate tape 2
  2 3 10 0 0
  endgroup
  3 4 10 0 0
endcentreline

Or do you see some other trivial solution of this problem?

Regards, S.


John Pybus wrote:

> Stacho Mudrak wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>> I'm just wondering, whether these situations are so common...
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> I'd say common enough on fairly large survey projects, especially those under exploration/expedition conditions where the surveying is done in a hurry and the chances of going back and correcting iffy readings are low.
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> I quite often make use of changing the SD for particular legs where it's known that the survey wasn't done to the general standard.  In general the SD is defined in a separate file which I *include in the survex data.  Having to undo that separation when using therion, and repeat the definition of the SD, is a shame, and makes converting data harder (as I first attempt I've usually just ignored changes in SD and put a comment in the .th file).
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> Yours,
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> John
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