Thank you Beat. That explains why I have never seen it in my data. I have not yet flipped an extended elevation in PocketTopo. Now I can update my cave converter to handle text export files with these characters knowing what they are for.
I had an enquiry as to what this converter tool was I an talking about. Details can be found here for those who are interested: http://wscc.darkgem.com/caveconverter/ Footleg On 26 January 2015 at 15:19, Beat Heeb <heeb at speleo.ch> wrote: > The â<â character after the trip number means the extended elevation runs > to the left. > > Without the character it runs to the right. > > > > Regards > > > > Beat > > > > > > *From:* therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] *On > Behalf Of *Footleg > *Sent:* Monday, 26 January, 2015 00:05 > *To:* List for Therion users > *Subject:* Re: [Therion] Pocket Topo Shot Direction question > > > > Thanks. So I think I may have suspected that this option was the cause of > the problem I was investigating. But it sounds like it is not related. What > I am actually trying to work out is what is causing the text export file > from a PocketTopo survey someone sent me to include a < character between > the trip number [1] and the comment in double quotes. I've not seen this in > any text files exported before, and I need to know what it indicates so I > can update the parser in my cave converter program. > > Footleg > > On 25 Jan 2015 22:05, "Beat Heeb" <heeb at speleo.ch> wrote: > > The direction used for the extended elevation is set by the âFlipâ command > in the drawing context menu. > > This completely independent of the shot direction set by the âShot ->â > command. > > > > Regards > > > > Beat > > > > > > *From:* therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] *On > Behalf Of *Andrew Atkinson > *Sent:* Sunday, 25 January, 2015 22:49 > *To:* Therion > *Subject:* Re: [Therion] Pocket Topo Shot Direction question > > > > I believe it is the direction used on the extended elevation (from memory) > > Andrew > > On 25 Jan 2015 21:41, "Footleg" <drfootleg at gmail.com> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what the purpose/use is of the menu item in PocketTopo > on the data screen which says either 'Shot ->' or 'Shot <-' ? > > I see it set to one or the other on my shots depending whether they were > forward or back shots. But then the shots direction is still indicated > primarily by the station names in the From and To columns. So I am not > clear what this menu item does or when I might want or need to use it? > > Footleg > > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion > > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20150126/d08e8655/attachment.html>