Tarquin,

sorry, but what is the reason to use two calibrate commands in two consecutive 
lines in your example?

calibrate tape 0 0.5
calibrate tape 0

Martin


> 14. 8. 2020 v 20:47, Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion <therion@speleo.sk>:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Think I may have uncovered a bug in Therion's parsing of the "calibrate
> tape" command.
> 
> Survex:
> *calibrate tape 0 0.5
> *calibrate tape 0
> 1 2 10 0 0
> *calibrate tape 0 1
> 2 3 10 90 0
> 
> Therion:
> calibrate tape 0 0.5
> calibrate tape 0
> 1 2 10 0 0
> calibrate tape 0 1
> 2 3 10 90 0
> 
> In Survex, both legs are 10 m long. In Therion, the first leg is 5 m
> long and the second is 10 m long.
> 
> Therion book:
> "The syntax is borrowed from Survex with minor modifications; the Survex
> manual may be useful as an additional reference for the user."
> 
> Survex manual does not say what happens to the scale value when it is
> omitted, but it does say "By default, the zero error is 0.0 and the
> scale factor 1.0 for all quantities." This implies that the scale value
> should reset to 1 whenever it is omitted.
> 
> Assuming Survex is "right" with this behaviour, does that mean Therion
> is wrong? Or is this one of those "minor differences"?
> 
> Or if I just messed up, someone please shout at me ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tarquin
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