[Therion] Help with a flowstone symbol for ASF.

[Mike Lake]

On Sun 25 Feb 2007, Stacho Mudrak wrote:
> I am sorry, "area flowstone" symbol is not yet supported, it is only in 
> the TODO list :( This is main reason of your problems. OK, I will try to 
> add it ASAP - it should be relatively easy.

Let me know if I understand this correctly.
I see in the src that there is a file SYMBOLS.txt which is generated by
the perl script mpost/genmpost.pl

SYMBOLS.txt has in it the following: 

[Area symbols]

bedrock: SKBB 
blocks: SKBB 
clay: SKBB 
debris: SKBB UIS 
dimensions: SKBB 
ice: SKBB 
pebbles: SKBB 
sand: UIS 
snow: SKBB 
sump: UIS 
water: UIS 

The above are compiled into the therion executable in some way so that
therion knows about those area symbols. If I want to override one of the
above area symbols with my own metapost code I can do that by including
the metapost code in thconfig.

But if the area symbol is not in the list above I can't just create
metapost code for say "a_something_ASF" as therion will not know about
it even if it's in thconfig.

Is that right?

PS. It does not worry me if there is no option in xtherion GUI for selecting
say an area 'flowstone' if I have an a_flowstone_ASF, as I can select say clay for an area and then edit
the th2 file file with vim and change clay to flowstone.

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Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.