[Therion] Change Size of Legensymbols and Text

Torsten Schnitter torsten.schnitter at netcologne.de
Sun Jan 10 12:21:59 CET 2016


Hi Henry

Thanks a lot for your help. :-)
Will figure out if that works for me. 

cheers,
Torsten

> Henry_Bennett at Dell.com hat am 8. Januar 2016 um 20:47 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> You need to add this to your th config.  Tweak the numbers to find what works
> for you.
> 
> Code metapost
>    def draw_legend_box =
>         %make the objects in the legend boxes bigger
>         currentpicture := currentpicture scaled 7.0;
>         clip currentpicture to unitsquare scaled 20u;
>         drawoptions();
>         pickup PenB;
>         draw unitsquare scaled 20u ;
>     enddef;
> 
>     %clear the background of the larger legend boxes
>     def clean_legend_box =
>         unfill unitsquare scaled 20u;
>     enddef;
> 
>     %change the value of inscale to fill the legend boxes
>     def inscale =
>         %xscaled legend_scale yscaled (0.618*legend_scale)
>         xscaled legend_scale yscaled legend_scale
>     enddef;
> endcode
> 
> code tex-map
>   \def\maplayout{
>     \legendbox{75}{80}{NW}{
>       \legendwidth 140 cm
>       \legendtextsize={\size[54]}
>       \hsize=\legendwidth
>       \input th_legend
>       }
>   }
> endcode #end of TeX code
> 
> You may also find this useful, from memory it was how I sorted the altitude
> legend box too.
> http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/tips#multilingual_legend_legend_formatting
> 
> This works for me for virtually all the symbols except for passage height
> which needs some additional thought.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Henry Bennett
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf
> Of Torsten Schnitter
> Sent: 08 January 2016 11:04
> To: therion at speleo.sk
> Subject: [Therion] Change Size of Legensymbols and Text
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm wondering if it's possible to change the size of the legendsymbols and
> it's text in a simple way.
> Does anyone have an idea?
> 
> Within the layout passage in the th-config file I use a separate legendbox for
> just the legendsymbols:
> ...
> \legendbox{10}{10}{SE}{\legendsymbols}
> ...
> \legendsymbols is defined as follows:
> code tex-map
> \def\legendsymbols{
> \hsize=\legendwidth
> \formattedlegend
> }
> 
> As the map is pretty big the legendsymbols are pretty small in comparision.
> And there is a lot free space for much bigger legendsymbols.
> 
> cheers,
> Torsten
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