[Therion] Error When Adding A new Cave to Master Index

[Nick Bairstow]

Martin, thank you for explaining that clearly, it seems I may have been over complicating things.

It would though, be nice to understand how the -station-names whoodoo works if only for future reference. I have found some stuff on the Wiki but nothing that makes any sense to me.

Our data set has only been one level so far and with hindsight we should have done things very differently but at the start of the learning process you can not always see that. Anyway this week we have two levels of data working with the latest stuff so a step forward I think.

I keep looking at the older stuff and thinking about redoing it to organise it better but then think well it all works, so lets not bother and go for a beer.

Nick

From: Therion [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Martin Sluka via Therion
Sent: 02 March 2018 11:10
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Subject: Re: [Therion] Error When Adding A new Cave to Master Index

Nick,

first off all, Therion is able to work only with unique informations which are in a survey/endsurvey wrapper.


It means, if you define map outside of the survey/endsurvey wrapper in .th file there must be another higher level survey/endsurvey wrapper which will cover all information Therion needs and which you define as source in .thconfig.


My way is to use for first level surveys (log of one survey trip) definitions of map(s) inside survey/endsurvey wrapper as I include particular .th2 file there too. So in this survey/endsurvey wrapper are all informations including scrap drawings. In higher level I simply "input" .th file, which means the survey/endsurvey wrapper of higher level has access to all necessary data without -station-names woodoo.


When I want to define a higher level map I must use scrap_name at survey_name, not only scrap_name. Etc.


Martin S.

On Mar 02, 2018, at 11:01 AM, Nick Bairstow via Therion <therion at speleo.sk<mailto:therion at speleo.sk>> wrote:
OK as is normally the case with these things I spotted the error within five minutes of asking for help, but it has raised a another question.
My problem was quite simply I had no survey/end survey wrapper. I have been using this index file for over two years and never noticed however it has worked perfectly and produced what I needed.

I now ask why did the index.th compile OK with the other 18 surveys listed in it.

The only difference between the first 18 surveys and the last non-working one was that in each scrap of the 18 previous surveys I used the option -station-names “” “@surveyname”. I was shown this when I started learning Therion but never really new why. When using this option to make any survey.th compile I have to make sure the map/endmap is outside the survey/endsurvey wrapper.

With the my latest survey file I did not use the scrap option and just went with the “normal way” with everything in survey.th within the survey/endsurvey and then the index .th failed due to having no survey/endsurvey wrapper.
Clearly I do not yet fully understand the process even though I can make things work, so lots more reading I think. Does anyone know of a good explanation somewhere, most thing I read I find a little confusing.

Also if someone would like to explain the
-station-names “” “@surveyname” bit I would be very grateful.

I suspect I’m not the only one to have struggled with this.

Thanks for the previous answers guys.


Nick

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Subject: Re: [Therion] Error When Adding A new Cave to Master Index

Nick
I’m guessing you have created a map that contains the survey only for your new cave, and a map which contains scraps or maps for your other caves.
I do this intentionally while I am drawing up a new  piece of passage, then remove the survey map once I am finished.
Bruce

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Subject: [Therion] Error When Adding A new Cave to Master Index

I have just added a small cave to my main index .th. Everything compiles but the pdf shows the new cave as shots and splays not as the normal walls etc you would expect in a map. All other caves display correctly as intended.
Has anyone point out what I am doing wrong.

Nick

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