[Therion] Difference between Therion and Survex when calibrating tape

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 07:47:48PM +0100, Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion wrote:
> Survex manual does not say what happens to the scale value when it is
> omitted, but it does say "By default, the zero error is 0.0 and the
> scale factor 1.0 for all quantities." This implies that the scale value
> should reset to 1 whenever it is omitted.

Yes.  It also explicitly says lower down "(Scale defaults to 1.0)"
(where the formulae used are given.)

Both for this and in general, if you see something in the manual which
could be clearer, please do send a suggested patch (or just a
replacement paragraph to copy in if you don't know how to make a patch).

Cheers,
    Olly