[Therion] FW: 2D output header title when therion can't decide which one to use

[Bruce]

I have figured out by trial and error that if Therion cannot determine a
unique map output title, it assigns a value of 'sort of empty but not quite
empty' to \cavename.

What ever that value is, it looks like a space character, ie blank but with
a height that equals a typical text line height.

It's not one space, not two spaces, not an empty string, and I can see I
could end up testing a lot of non printing characters before I find it.

 

Maybe the programmer can remember what the magic value is, or someone with
better tex skills (than my almost non-existent tex skills) can offer some
code to identify the contents of a string variable, ie it's length or much
better a list of ascii codes?

 

code tex-map

  \edef\therioninferedmaptitle{\the\cavename}   %save existing calculated
cavename to variable

                         %could put some code here to output the ascii codes
contained in \cavename

  \edef\nostring{ }   %save 'empty string' to variable

  \ifx\therioninferedmaptitle\nostring             %test if
therioninferedmaptitle matches empty string

                        \cavename={Caves of the Flora Area}
%if therioninferedmaptitle is empty do this

  \else 

            %if it's not empty, do nothing, ie keep the value set by therion

  \fi

endcode

 

;- )

 

Bruce    

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