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<br><div><div>On 14 Jan 2013, at 21:25, <a href="mailto:therion-request@speleo.sk">therion-request@speleo.sk</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Send Therion mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:therion@speleo.sk">therion@speleo.sk</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>therion-request@speleo.sk<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>therion-owner@speleo.sk<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Therion digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: point:passage-height (Marco Corvi)<br> 2. Re: point:passage-height (Martin Sluka)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:15:21 -0800 (PST)<br>From: Marco Corvi <marco_corvi@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [Therion] point:passage-height<br>To: List for Therion users <therion@speleo.sk><br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><1358165721.27508.YahooMailNeo@web120301.mail.ne1.yahoo.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>hi bruce,<br><br>passage-height goes with modes 2, 3, 4, and 5<br><br>dave might redefine the mpost macros scaling the label (lab) in a custom layout.<br><br>marco<br><br><br><br>________________________________<br> From: Bruce <bruce@tomo.co.nz><br>To: 'List for Therion users' <therion@speleo.sk> <br>Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 7:57 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Therion] point:passage-height<br><br><br><br>Dave<br>The key to modifying the symbol definition<br>may lie in the file thText.mp in the sources<br>?<br>Ie Here is the code from 5.3.9 as an<br>example<br>?<br>vardef p_label@#(expr txt,pos,rot,mode) =<br>? if (mode=1) or (mode=7): interim<br>labeloffset:=(u/8) fi;<br>? lab:=thelabel@#(txt, pos);<br>? if mode>1: pickup PenD fi;<br>? if mode=1:<br>??? pickup pencircle scaled<br>(u/6);<br>??? drawdot(pos);<br>??? process_label(pos,0);<br>? elseif mode=2:<br>process_uplabel;?????? <br>? elseif mode=3: process_downlabel;<br>? elseif mode=4: process_updownlabel;<br>? elseif mode=5:<br>process_circledlabel;<br>? elseif mode=6: process_boxedlabel;<br>? elseif mode=7:<br>process_label(pos,rot);? % station name<br>? elseif mode=8:<br>process_filledlabel(pos, rot);<br>? else: process_label(pos,rot); fi;<br>enddef;<br>?<br>I have not looked into how it works, but I?m<br>guessing the ?point height? and ?point passage-height?<br>labels are one of the ?modes? above, and that the processes called<br>are default metapost routines.? Too complicated for me to unravel.<br>?<br>BTW shouldn?t you be using ?point<br>height? to indicate the height of cobble banks, rather than ?point<br>passage-height?? (Probably the same symbol size issue will apply).<br>?<br>Also, as a path to a possible work around,<br>I think the AUT symbol set includes the option to label ?line pit?<br>(or is it ?line wall:pit?)?? I have never managed to get it to<br>work ? but have not tried too hard either.<br>?<br>Bruce<br>?<br><br>________________________________<br><br>From:therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Dave Clucas<br>Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2013<br>12:59 a.m.<br>To: therion@speleo.sk<br>Subject: Re: [Therion]<br>point:passage-height<br>?<br>Footleg - I'm not using the symbol to control the passage height, I'm<br>using it to show the depth of a trench in a gravel bank.<br>Vasily - I'm already using base-scale to control the size of other symbols<br>but this one is too big. I need to make it smaller without changing all the<br>symbols. The size is probably related to the font size but again I'm happy with<br>the font size for labels etc, I just want to change this particular symbol.<br>?<br>Dave Clucas<br>daveclucas.com<br>mycaves.org.<br>?<br>?<br>?<br>_______________________________________________<br>Therion mailing list<br>Therion@speleo.sk<br>http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20130114/29ae6ad0/attachment-0001.htm><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:36:48 +0100<br>From: Martin Sluka <martinsluka@mac.com><br>Subject: Re: [Therion] point:passage-height<br>To: List for Therion users <therion@speleo.sk><br>Message-ID: <9FA52187-02F7-4917-8490-06B891F1A2A1@mac.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br><br>On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Marco Corvi <marco_corvi@yahoo.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">dave might redefine the mpost macros scaling the label (lab) in a custom layout.<br></blockquote><br>It looks the xs s and m scale are not enough differenced - see attachment<br><br>m.<br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20130114/72a7064b/attachment.htm><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br>Name: cave.pdf<br>Type: application/pdf<br>Size: 15647 bytes<br>Desc: not available<br>URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20130114/72a7064b/attachment.pdf><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20130114/72a7064b/attachment-0001.htm><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Therion mailing list<br>Therion@speleo.sk<br>http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion<br><br><br>End of Therion Digest, Vol 85, Issue 21<br>***************************************<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>