Thanks Stacho, Martin Just goes to show how dangerous preconceived ideas can be. I'll try out that code when I get a chance... Bruce
-----Original Message----- From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stacho Mudrak Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2007 3:42 a.m. To: therion at speleo.sk Subject: Re: [Therion] There's Grids then and there's Grids Quoting Bruce Mutton <bruce.mutton at paradise.net.nz>: > Ah, Stacho. Two types of grids! > That explains part of my conundrum. Now that I know it exists I'm not sure > what the map atlas grid might be for? To show atlas pages layout, when "export atlas" is used. > The other relates to the co-ordinate grid; illustrated by the attached pdfs, > scaled at 1:1000. > When specified as 10 10 10 I get nice continuous grids, but when specified > as 50 50 50 or 100 100 100 (and no other changes) I get cross hairs, which > are not too my liking. You get 1cm cross-hairs also in 10 10 10 grid, but they are too close to each other :) Just redefine grid symbol to receive solid grid -- i.e. add following lines to your layout: code metapost def s_hgrid (expr xpos, ypos, xsize, ysize) = pickup PenD; draw ( if xpos < 0: 0 else: -xsize/2 fi, 0 ) -- ( if xpos > 0: 0 else: xsize/2 fi, 0 ); draw ( 0, if ypos < 0: 0 else: -ysize/2 fi ) -- ( 0, if ypos > 0: 0 else: ysize/2 fi ); enddef; endcode Regards, S. _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion at speleo.sk http://www.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion
