[Therion] Stupendous symbol effort

[Martin Sluka]

There is a book published after 30 years work of prof. Vladimír Panoš, book named Karsologická a speleologická terminologie, it means "Karsologic and Speleologic Terminology". There are names of such terms in English, French, Italian, German, Russian and Spanish. The explanation is only in Czech but you may use online translator. There are more than 2000 entries there. I’m sure you may find it online as PDF, but as printed book it is in many libraries around the world. 

Maybe this may help.

Martin


> 17. 12. 2019 v 22:15, Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion <therion at speleo.sk>:
> 
>> Here in Slovakia we call it like "water level flowstone" -
>> but it would be complicated to name for this symbol. So is the
>> "disc-stalactite" OK in English?
> 
> I can only speak for what I have heard in the UK. We call these "pom
> poms" after a famous stalactite called "The Pom Pom" in South Wales. (In
> turn, this is named after the thing cheerleaders hold.) I imagine that
> in the USA they will use a completely different name.
> 
> However, we don't really seem to have a generic name for the effect. The
> rafts that float are called "calcite rafts", but the ones that are stuck
> to a stalactite at the water's level don't have a formal name that I
> have heard. Maybe someone from the BCRA could say...
> 
> "Water level growths" is probably as good as anything, but far too long
> for Therion.
> 
>> Another symbol:
>> point plus|minus|plus-minus
>> currently, for "plus" and "minus" there is:
>> point height -value +
>> point height -value -
>> and there is no symbol for point +-. So I suggest to add "point height
>> -value +-" and make a circle version of point height.
> 
> There is already a +- round text ornamentation. It is used whenever the
> p_label_mode is p_label_mode_passageheightposneg, which I think is only
> "point passageheight:both".
> 
> 
> Tarquin
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