[Therion] ignoreall before newline does not seem to work

[Bruce]

Andrews suggestion would be a nice addition to the therion data options.

I have not checked, but assume the ‘comments’ that are part of the ignore or ignoreall really are ignored by therion.

It would be nice (but low priority) if they could be included in the dataset as if they were specified like;

 
Station 46 “Big Entrance” entrance spring dig  # as in the therion book quotation below

 
Ie comment appears in loch model and any number of flags

 
This would keep associated data together in the survey file.  It would be nice to have the option of including the station flags as well as the comments.

Could well be messy in some situations, but a nice option if it is easy to implement.
 

Not sure if or how the ‘data station’ declaration would handle the random input of comments and flags.

Would require quotes around multi word comments to differentiate from flags.

Maybe this would be a useful data declaration to aim for...

data normal station left right up down optional[“comment” flag1 flag2 etc] newline optional[back] tape compass clino
 
There is probably a case for aiming for close compatibility with survex however.

>From the Therion Book...
station <station> <comment> [<flags>] ◃ set the station comment and its flags.

If "" is specified as a comment, it is ignored.

Supported flags: entrance, continuation, air-draught[:winter/summer], sink,

spring, doline, dig, arch, overhang. Also not is allowed before a flag, to remove 5.3

previously added flag.

You can also specify custom attributes to the station using attr flag followed by

attribute name and value. Example:

station 4 "pit to explore" continuation attr code "V"

Bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Andrew Atkinson
Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 5:16 a.m.
To: List for Therion users
Subject: [Therion] ignoreall before newline does not seem to work

Hello

I am trying to do this data


data normal station left right up down ignoreall newline tape compass clino
P2D1	1	0.4	0	0.37	Top of sump pool	
b	3.88	122.0	-3.0
P2D2	0.2	1	0.2	0.4	Left side passage just above bolt	
F	5.64	289.0	-3.0
P2D3	0.7	0.6	0	0.43	Roof pendant

but it tells me that I do not have enogh readings for type in	


On the survex documentation it uses this, which should work, just 
ignoreing the LRUD but same result

data normal station ignoreall newline tape compass clino

A bit of playing around and I find this works (but I don't really want 
to go through and add quotes for all my comments)

data normal station left right up down ignore newline tape compass
P2D1	1	0.4	0	0.37	"Top of sump pool"	
b	3.88	122.0	-3.0
P2D2	0.2	1	0.2	0.4	"Left side passage just above bolt"	
F	5.64	289.0	-3.0
P2D3	0.7	0.6	0	0.43	"Roof pendant"

So it looks like ignoreall before a new line does not work in therion, 
it is shown in survex documentation, and works in survex