[Therion] Best practice - orientation of original sketch? (Bill Gee)

[Graham Mullan]

Bill Gee said:

"My solution is to choose a map rotation early and stick with it, and also
to not put images on the map until almost the last step."

This presupposes that the cave will never be extended again, especially in
'unexpected' directions. Let us say that North up is chosen as a map
orientation. Let us then say that before the known cave has been completely
mapped a large extension is discovered that trends south-west. Then another
one is found elsewhere in the system that trends east. It may be that the
convenient orientation of the map will change during the course of the
project.

To Therion users this does not matter one jot as Therion will always rotate
stuff as required. And I don't know about anyone else, but especially in
complex projects I have always to return to .th2 files to tweak the exact
positions (and sizes, sometimes) of labels in order to ensure best fit in
the final drawing.

Thus I would always (if being forced not to use a PDA for some reason)
survey to use pages to their maximum extent and put up with the minor
inconvenience of reading sideways whilst drawing up scraps, 'cos whatever
you choose, arbitrarily, you will always be wrong at some point.

As an aside this is also in part why we try to generate the finished product
as a pdf directly from Therion rather than importing into another drawing
program as it cuts out the need to do parts of the job twice. The drawback
with this is that Therion is not quite yet as flexible as I would like,
notably in the management of colour and in the availability of different
fonts and text characters (ampersand, copyright symbol etc). I know - or
suspect - that some of these latter issues might be solvable in MetaPost,
but I'm a rubbish programmer who can just about cope with php and html but
no more.

Graham

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