The correct way could be to define “Missoury symbol set” as one of defaults for Therion.
It should be more simple than user symbol, because it will work with contents menus. Martin S. Odesláno z iPhonu 20. 9. 2018 v 1:05, Bill Gee via Therion <therion@speleo.sk>: > Hi Andrew - > > I have defined several of my own symbols such as a pendant and popcorn with > hollow circles. I could easily define a custom point that would display a > square box. > > But then how to get the value displayed inside the box? And how to make the > box scale according to the number of digits it contains? And will Therion do > unit conversions like it does for the passage-height object? That's why I > was > looking for the existing code. If I can find it, then it is probably pretty > easy to modify. > > -- > Bill Gee > > > > On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 5:31:33 PM CDT Andrew Atkinson via Therion > wrote: >> Yes that is probably possible, however, using a defined symbol for >> something else is probably not the right answer. Therion allows you to >> define your own points. >> >>> From the wiki >> >> point u:xxxx where xxxx is the name of a user defined symbol that you have >> defined or referenced in a layout. >> >> The actual definition seems to be beyond me at the moment, let me sleep on >> it, but hopefully a more skillful person will have the answer. >> >> Andrew >> >>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, 22:28 Bill Gee via Therion, <therion@speleo.sk> wrote: >>> Hello everyone - >>> >>> A common convention around Missouri cave mapping is to indicate the height >>> change of a floor step by enclosing the value in a square box. This is >>> not >>> the same as ceiling height which is enclosed in a circle or oval. >>> >>> I have been using the object "point height" for this. It works except >>> there >>> is nothing around the value. It just hangs out in space, so to speak. >>> >>> I used the "-d" option to dump all the MetaPost and TeX code. I find no >>> references in any of the files to objects of type height or >>> passage-height, >>> which implies that these two objects are not generated by MetaPost. >>> >>> Is it possible to redefine the "point height" symbol so it draws a square >>> box >>> around the value? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> -- >>> Bill Gee >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Therion mailing list >>> Therion@speleo.sk >>> https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion@speleo.sk > https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@speleo.sk https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion
