Hi Bruce - Yes, I am now referring to PDF outputs. It has not bothered me enough to chase down the solution. I am pretty sure there is some combination of map and select statements that will do the trick. The last time I thought much about this, the problem I came up with was how to tell the BigCavernRanch.th file the names of the various maps in the other .th files. I don't know how the scope of the name spaces works in this kind of configuration.
The issue will probably become more annoying in a few weeks. We are planning a major survey expedition to these caves for Nov 10-11, and I will have a lot of new data to work with. The passage that I want to offset is particularly difficult, less than 12 inches high for most of its known length, so there are very few people who are willing to do survey in there. At least it is in dry clay! No water to deal with. The old maps you have may not include this passage. It takes off from the top of Texas Dome, which is in the far north part of Allie Spring Cave. We call the passage "Top of Texas". It runs pretty much directly above other passages. Even with transparency it makes for a rather confused presentation unless it is offset to the side. -- Bill Gee On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 2:55:37 AM CDT Bruce Mutton wrote: > > There is one feature I have found that does not work. . One of my four > maps has a section where two passages run pretty much the same way, one > directly above the other. In the single-cave map I handled this by setting > the upper passage off to the side. That does not come through to the group > map. The two passages are drawn on top of each other. > > > > Bill > > I presume you are now referring to exported map pdf outputs? > > I was looking for something that fitted that description in an old copy of > your Big Cavern Ranch project that I got from one of your posts last year, > but didn't find anything. > > In general, if you select and export a map that has offsets defined, they > will be honoured. > > I you do not specifically select a map with the offsets defined, then the > scraps will be plotted in their true position - no offset. I do this > intentionally for overview maps of multiple caves, as offsets at small > scales (1:2,000, 1:10,000) provide a misleading impression of the cave. > > It seems like you have done this as well, perhaps unwittingly. > > Your source BigCavernRanch.th contains a survey named 'all' but there is no > corresponding map defined as far as I can see. Therefore despite each of > those caves referenced having maps defined, they are not used - every scrap > defined is used instead. So no offsets. > > > > >From the Therion Book. > > 'select' > Description: selects objects (surveys and maps) for export. By default, all > survey objects > are selected. If there is no map selected, all scraps belonging to selected > surveys are > selected by default for map export. > > > > You can easily control what is plotted by defining a 'map all' in your > BigCavernRanch.th file (or elsewhere) and then selecting it in your 'all' > thconfig. > > > > Bruce > > > > > >
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