To follow up on this "tas" idea; I really want to discuss this and opened an issue ticket for that:
https://github.com/therion/therion/issues/640

What is your opinion on such a feature?


Am 2025-02-19 18:02, schrieb Benedikt Hallinger via Therion:
I really feel, we need a "true" way of specifying how to hide/select things for various outputs. Some kind of optional selector attribute inherent to any symbol, without affecting or misuing the other settings. This cuold also be used to hide/select symbols based on scale (which is currently kind-of-supported by using the symbol size - which I cannot use beause I need that for actual sizing of stuff).

A quick Idea could be:
1. untagged elements are always printed

2. tagged elements only if they are selected in the thconfig

3. actual systematic is user-defined, so we have maximum flexibility.
For example, I could imagine mixing several systematics, one for desired output scale and another for special purposes:

--------- thconfig --------
select tag scale:250
select tag scale:500
select tag remarks
select tag crossSections:abc
export map ....
---------------------------
In the th2's I just tag the items with "-tag scale:500" or "-tag crossSections:abc" (or both). This would completely (and optionally) decouple the show/hide from internal magic and support various usecases out of the box. One just needs to think of a good tagging systematic for his usecases/dataset.




Am 2025-02-19 17:29, schrieb Andrew Atkinson:
On 19/02/2025 15:58, Bill Gee wrote:
I would also like a way to produce a map which has SOME (not all) cross- sections.  Right now it is all or nothing.  You either get every cross- section or you get no cross-sections.  This might be done by using PDF layers and letting the cross-section scrap specify the layer it goes on.

You can sort of do this with
-attr <name> <value>. <name>
Then use this in metapost

p36 thbook
You can test presence of such a variable using if known ATTR_<name>: ... fi.

However, my metapost was not good enough and I kept getting bugs. So I used python to pull them out, then removed the ones I wanted. I thought I had put the code online, but cannot find it!

However, the use of attr would work better if symbol-hide worked for it. Unfortunately I do not think that it does.

You could abuse the system by abusing the -context option and setting it to a symbol you do not use then turn that off with symbol-hide.


Andrew
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