>I can't find in catgen how to create those squares lines around
>messier objects. Those are very useful.

Aha. You can't override the symbol set in v3 because I hard-coded this by
design. That said, I modeled them on Megastar/SA 2000, on the basis that the
symbols should resemble as much a possible a metaphor that is already
accepted by observers. 

I did consider alternate symbol sets, but frankly, the U2000/MSA/SA2000 is
near-perfect for active observers. I did seriously consider the
Herald-Bobroth (http://www.heraldbobroff.com/)at one point, so just be
grateful for small mercies :))

At the same time I added the colouring by object type feature, - again
modeled on Megastar/SA2000, but provided the facility to change them as
required. IIRC in v276 you can have any colour you like as long as it's
green.

hth
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of makronti
Sent: 01 August 2008 00:28
To: [email protected]
Subject: [skychart-discussion] Re: Messier catalogs in version 3

Hello John and thank you
After a lot of hours finally I did the compilation of the messier
catalog with catgen.

One more thing: With 2.76 version and cds files of messier objects, I
had a nice square line around any messier object. This was because I
edit the messier.cds file and I gave " color=7   symbol=2 ".

I can't find in catgen how to create those squares lines around
messier objects. Those are very useful.

Any idea?


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