[Therion] How to include Metapost code from outside files

[Torsten Schnitter]

Hi

Your thc-files should begin and end with following:
layout xyz
code metapost
 ...metapost code...
endcode
endlayout

then you can use
"input ..\...thc"
AND
"copy xyz" at the right place within the thconfig file.
(for me it does work)

cheers,
Torsten

> Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net> hat am 11. November 2014 um 16:25 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hi Martin -
> 
> That is exactly what I tried.  It does not work from inside a layout/endlayout
> pair.
> 
> I also tried it outside any enclosing pair and got this error:
> 
> ===========
> therion 5.3.13
> initialization file: /usr/local/etc/therion.ini
> reading ... done
> configuration file: thconfig
> reading ...
> therion: error -- CustomSymbolsCode.txt [2] -- unknown configuration command
> --
> code
> writing xtherion file ... done
> =============
> 
> Is there a more complete thconfig file that shows how this is done?  Where
> exactly in the thconfig file does the input line go?
> 
> Thanks - Bill Gee
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 15:24:35 Martin Sluka wrote:
> > thconfig:
> > 
> > input layouts/layout_radavc_standard.thc
> > 
> > m.
> > 
> > 11. 11. 2014 v 15:04, Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net>:
> > > Hello everyone -
> > > 
> > > I have quite a bit of Metapost code for custom symbols.  Rather than
> > > repeat
> > > several hundred lines in every layout/endlayout pair, I would like to put
> > > the code in its own file and then <include> that file in the thconfig
> > > file.  How is that done?
> > > 
> > > I tried using both "input sourcefile" and "source sourcefile".  The same
> > > error comes up for both.  Text below.
> > > 
> > > According to the Therion Book, the only valid place for code/endcode pairs
> > > is inside a layout/endlayout pair.  Is that true?
> > > 
> > > Thanks - Bill Gee
> > > 
> > > =============
> > > therion 5.3.13
> > > initialization file: /usr/local/etc/therion.ini
> > > reading ... done
> > > configuration file: thconfig
> > > reading ...
> > > therion: error -- thconfig [14] -- thconfig [14] -- unknown option --
> > > input
> > > CustomSymbolsCode.txt
> > > writing xtherion file ... done
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > therion 5.3.13
> > > initialization file: /usr/local/etc/therion.ini
> > > reading ... done
> > > configuration file: thconfig
> > > reading ...
> > > therion: error -- thconfig [14] -- thconfig [14] -- unknown option --
> > > source CustomSymbolsCode.txt
> > > writing xtherion file ... done
> > > 
> > > 
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