u: = 5pt really helps! It doesnt seem to effect the line water-flow arrow heads. As there anyway to scale them down with a simple metapost line?
Thank you for all your hard work! :) Philip Schuchardt On Tuesday 02 May 2006 4:33 am, Martin Budaj wrote: > On 5/1/06, Philip Schuchardt <ohc at vt.edu> wrote: > > I am drawing a large map and had to in increase the scale from 1:200 to > > 1:600. > > Therion seems to scale walls and lines really well but the point symbols > > stay > > the same size for any scale. > > No, points symbols are scaled, although not linear. In the 1:600 scale they > are exactly half the size of symbols in 1:200 scale. > > Is there anyway to scale the point symbols, > > > other then typing -scale tiny |small | normal | large | huge for each > > point > > symbol? > > If you'd like to have more control, you may use > > 1) base-scale command in layout (see thbook) > 2) directly change the size of symbols using following code in layout > (undocumented and not recommended) > > code metapost > u:=5pt; %%% or any other value > > Both commands change the apperance of line symbols as well. Map symbols > were not yet optimized for different scales (we mostly use 1:200 and 1:2000 > / 1:5000 without symbols). Suggestions are welcome. > > Martin