[Therion] Height numbers in square boxes

[Bill Gee]

Hi Stacho -

Wow!  Many thanks!  This is awsome!

I won't have a chance to actually try it until JM Begley gets this version 
compiled and into his RPM repository.  Compiling Therion from source has never 
worked completely right for me, so I gave it up when the repository became 
available.

This morning I see that a few other people have tried it.  The sample maps 
they included show exactly what I was looking for.  Based on that I am 
confident it will work for me when I get a new version.

For what it's worth - I added the MetaPost segment to my files and recompiled 
the map.  It did not produce any errors, though of course it also did not 
produce a boxed number.

I am currently on version 5.4.1, April 2017, running on 64-bit Fedora 28.

-- 
Bill Gee



On Monday, October 1, 2018 3:08:10 PM CDT Stacho Mudrak via Therion wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> we have rearranged therion metapost code in latest commits and now (using
> last devel build) it should be possible to have boxed height labels just by
> using following code in your layout:
> 
> code metapost
> p_label_mode_height:=6;
> endcode
> 
> The magic number 6 stands for boxed label. See
> https://github.com/therion/therion/blob/master/mpost/thText.mp#L85 for list
> of all label modes.
> 
> Please let us know, if this is what you have been looking for or more
> complicated changes are needed.
> 
> S.
> 
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 23:35, Bill Gee via Therion <therion at speleo.sk>
> 
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone -
> > 
> > A common convention around Missouri cave mapping is to indicate the height
> > change of a floor step by enclosing the value in a square box.  This is
> > not
> > the same as ceiling height which is enclosed in a circle or oval.
> > 
> > I have been using the object "point height" for this.  It works except
> > there
> > is nothing around the value.  It just hangs out in space, so to speak.
> > 
> > I used the "-d" option to dump all the MetaPost and TeX code.  I find no
> > references in any of the files to objects of type height or
> > passage-height,
> > which implies that these two objects are not generated by MetaPost.
> > 
> > Is it possible to redefine the "point height" symbol so it draws a square
> > box
> > around the value?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Bill Gee
> > 
> > 
> > 
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