[Therion] symbol-show fixed points / point text
Ben Cooper
ben at caver.plus.com
Sat Nov 26 23:54:38 CET 2011
Bruce, Andrew, et al,
I noticed your posts from February about this topic, which I also happen to
be struggling with at the moment. I'm trying to produce two maps, one
showing fixed survey stations and another showing continuations.
In particular, I'm a bit confused about the subtle difference between the
'mark', 'flags', and 'station' commands in centreline, and the various point
commands in scrap. How are these related in metapost, and how can I
distinguish between them in selecting what is displayed? As with Bruce's
"concrete water trough" below, I'd rather not have to use the "continuation"
flag just to get the text to display. Any suggestions?
I have made some progress by using the "continuation" flag for both my
needs, but it's not ideal, and I had trouble getting it to work.
I'm currently using the
mark <station> fixed and
station <station> "text" continuation
in the centreline, but it also seems to work for the point continuation in
the scrap.
In the thconfig layout I've used:
symbol-hide group all
symbol-show line wall # seems to be needed to force display of the cave
itself
symbol-show point station:painted
symbol-show point station:fixed
symbol-show point station:natural
symbol-show point flag:continuation
To display the text I've then used, as per thbook.
code metapost
def p_continuation(expr pos,theta,sc,al) = ...etc
I'd like to be able to use a different symbol to the question mark for my
fixed stations, but I don't know how to do that.
To get the points to display, I found I had to use the -stations option in
the 'scrap' command, even if the scrap included the station already! I'm
not sure why this is so, but it works. It also gave me an idea to create an
"overlay" scrap, that includes nothing other than the -stations option (plus
a couple of point stations to calibrate the scale and avoid the "scrap too
large" error). I've got two such scrap files, one called "fixed" and the
other called "continuations", and it seems to be working.
In my source file, I've added two map definitions
map Map_mFixedStations
UF_mFixed
preview below UF_m1
endmap
and
map Map_Continuations
UF_mContinuations
preview below UF_m1
endmap
where UF_m1 is the master map of the whole cave, UF_mFixed is a map
containing the Fixed point scrap, and UF_mContinuations is the map
containing the Continuations scrap. It might be that because of the preview
below, I no longer need symbol-hide all, but I haven't tried that yet.
In this way I can select the various different points to show in each
overlay. The limitation is that I can't have a station that is both a fixed
station and a continuation; and I have to manually search my whole cave
survey to manually identify all of the fixed points and list them in the
scrap. It would be nicer to have Therion display these automatically using
symbol-show!
The attached shows my "proof of concept" output (it's a bit rough and still
incomplete) and I've currently turned off the text output because my points
are too close together at this scale (1:4000) and the texts collide. The
fixed stations without the question mark have no "stations" command and no
text.
Regards,
- Ben
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From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf
Of Bruce
Sent: 10 February 2011 19:28
To: 'List for Therion users'
Subject: Re: [Therion] symbol-show fixed points
Thanks Stacho
I think you are pointing me in the direction of answering my second
question; redefinition of each type of point that I might be interested in.
ie p_sink, p_doline, p_entrance.
(Admittedly I have not delved into the code to see how it currently works,
and I should perhaps educate myself some more before asking.)
Some of my points would have all three (or more) flags set (sink, doline,
entrance). Are they just layered one above the other in the output? So
there may be three copies of the (identical) text layered one above the
other if each definition included printing of the text? When I have time I
can look into the TMPDIR outputs and perhaps figure it out.
Anyway I digress. My most pressing need and interest is (the first question
in my original post) adding the text output to fixed points that do not have
any other flags set. The ones that show up in Loch as red circles that do
not have doline or other flag set, but do not show up with labels included
in the pdf output. Is there a p_fixed?
Thanks
Bruce
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From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf
Of Stacho Mudrak
Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2011 10:48 p.m.
To: List for Therion users
Subject: Re: [Therion] symbol-show fixed points
Well, it is quite complicated, but it is possible. When point symbol is
exported from centerline, system _text attribute is set in metapost. To
dipsplay label, use code
code metapost
def p_continuation(expr pos,theta,sc,al) =
etc...
shown in:
http://therion.speleo.sk/samples.doc/60.html
But you will need to redefine corresponding symbol (e.g. p_sink). In that
code, you can also control, whether symbol and/or text should be displayed.
Feel free to ask more, if this does not help you.
Regards, S.
On 7 February 2011 21:10, Bruce <dangle at tomo.co.nz> wrote:
Hi All
I've been trying to understand symbol-show and symbol-hide a little better
as they relate to pdf outputs. How do I display the text associated with
fixed points?
I have some map objects defined for various caves in a large system. These
are comprised of scrap drawings.
I also have a map object with the minor surface features nearby, such as
sinks, dolines, isolated entrances and significant navigational features
such as fence posts or trees (for example). This is comprised of a survey
only (mostly fixed points, and no scrap drawings) however and uses flags
such as doline or sink, and most points have a text string associated ie.
fix 15 2521640 6042938 581 10 10 30
station 15 "Concrete water trough"
I would like to show the caves as outlines with all the rest of their
symbology turned off, and the surface features with each of the points
labelled with appropriate symbol and associated text. This is for an area
map, at scales of say 1:5000 or 1:10,000
I can turn the cave symbols off with symbol-hide statements, and so far I
think that is working out OK.
However.
-layout-symbol-show point flag:entrance \
-layout-symbol-show point flag:sink \
-layout-symbol-show point flag:spring \
-layout-symbol-show point flag:doline \
-layout-symbol-show point flag:dig \
The above layout statements cause the special entrance and sink etc symbols
to be displayed, AND show the text string associated with the point. These
are not displayed by default as far as I can tell, but these statements
rectify that.
-layout-symbol-show group all
And the group all statement has pretty much the same effect in a more
comprehensive and compact format.
However none of the above enables me to display the text for my "Concrete
water trough" example above.
It is always just a cross with no text, or with '15' if debug station-names
is on. It shows up in Loch, but not in pdfs.
So, how do I display the text associated with fixed points?
Is there a need for.
-layout-symbol-show point fixed
. or something similar?
Also, sometimes I would like to display the point symbols (for the likes of
the above flags) OR the text strings associated with the points, but not
both at once. Is there a way of doing this?
Thanks
Bruce
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