[Therion] Therion map colour specification hierarchy

[Bruce Mutton]

Hi

Maybe with this morning's message I was tackling the task of specifically
colouring certain maps from the wrong perspective.

 

>From Therion Book.

colo[u]r <color> . set the map colour; this option overrides the automatic
choice
when the layout specifies colour map-fg [map].

 

So I expect colour map-fg to set the typical colour scheme for a map in a
layout, and if I want exceptional override colours I specify these with
selects in my thconfig.

 

In thconfig

select  97-HectorsWetPlan at MiddleEarth -colour [100 0 0] #red

select 90-ToPoolPlan at MiddleEarth -colour [0 70 0] #green

In layout

colour map-fg [97 86 38] # yellow brown

 

So for this 'fixed' map-fg the selects govern, as suggested by The Therion
Book and as below, and I get exactly the effect I want.

 

 



 

But with colour map-fg altitude, the selects are overridden.  Although the
selected coloured submaps appear on their own pdf layer, when the other
layers are turned off, the submaps have the 'altitude' colours as seen below
(and not the red or green colours that I might have hoped).  Same thing
happens with colour map-fg explo-date.

 

So I think the behaviour suggested by the Therion Book is inconsistently
implemented.  I would prefer it if setting a colour for a particular map
always overrode a general layout specification.



 

Bruce

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