> 'export' only exports up one level - to the surrounding survey, so there are > no 'global' names which might clash. So it is not true that you might not be > able to join caves.
Then I've not understood the survex manual correctly :) >> >* therion uses # for comments, survex uses ; (by default) >> >this is just tiresome - especially for hand-editing conversion > > > If therion could accept both it would be handy. conversion of > these chars is easy in theory but the problem is that ";" is/can > be used in places where it does not mean 'comment' so a simple-minded > replacement might make some comments a bit odd. > It shouldn't break anything though. A converter replacing the > first one on a line will probably always work. > (counterexamples?) No idea. I just have to check - how is it in therion - when the line is not commented from the beginning. >> >* Survex uses "begin <surveyname>", therion uses "survey <surveyname>" >> >* Survex uses "end <surveyname>", therion uses "endsurvey" >> >> endsurvey can be optionally followed by <surveyname>, than it's checked >> whether survey and endsurvey parameter match. > > > I'm fairly sure I got errors in therion 0.2.15 when I tried this....this > would certainly be better for making the converter simpler (it has to be > careful about begin/end pairs that are do not start/end surveys. I've checked this now - it works with my dataset. So if it doesn't work with your data, there must be a bug somewhere... > "assitant" was the best sensible term I could think of. Someone on the > surveying team who may not actually be surveying but is looking round > corners, up slopes, and behind boulders to be sure nothing is missed. Now I understand :) > Why is that cleaner than a 'survexinclude' directive which does necessary > conversion?. I suppose it is more general, but going through make is going > to be confusing to non-programmers I would have thought? I had in mind, that convertor would never be able to convert corretly all survex input data. Using make process - user (programmer) would be able to make corrections. But you're right, I've never thought about 'non- programmers' :( > The make target would need to create new files by converting the existing > survex files, then insert them, or include them, in existing therion files - > right? Yes. But I think, that the most important thing now is to create and test the conversion script - and then we can decide, how it will be implemented in therion. Regards, S.
