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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maybe with this morning’s message I was tackling the task of specifically colouring certain maps from the wrong perspective.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From Therion Book.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=fontstyle01><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>colo[u]r <color> </span></span><span class=fontstyle21><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>. </span></span><span class=fontstyle31><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>set the map colour; this option overrides the automatic choice</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CMR12",serif;color:black'><br><span class=fontstyle31>when the layout specifies </span></span><span class=fontstyle01><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>colour map-fg [map]</span></span><span class=fontstyle31><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=fontstyle31><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=fontstyle31><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In thconfig<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>select 97-HectorsWetPlan@MiddleEarth -colour [100 0 0] #red<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>select 90-ToPoolPlan@MiddleEarth -colour [0 70 0] #green<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In layout<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>colour map-fg [97 86 38] # yellow brown<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=593 height=687 style='width:6.1805in;height:7.1597in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D78A3C.57B4B350"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=649 height=787 style='width:6.7569in;height:8.2013in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image006.png@01D78A3C.57B4B350"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bruce<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>