Yes that is probably possible, however, using a defined symbol for something else is probably not the right answer. Therion allows you to define your own points.
>From the wiki point u:xxxx where xxxx is the name of a user defined symbol that you have defined or referenced in a layout. The actual definition seems to be beyond me at the moment, let me sleep on it, but hopefully a more skillful person will have the answer. Andrew On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, 22:28 Bill Gee via Therion, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone - > > A common convention around Missouri cave mapping is to indicate the height > change of a floor step by enclosing the value in a square box. This is > not > the same as ceiling height which is enclosed in a circle or oval. > > I have been using the object "point height" for this. It works except > there > is nothing around the value. It just hangs out in space, so to speak. > > I used the "-d" option to dump all the MetaPost and TeX code. I find no > references in any of the files to objects of type height or > passage-height, > which implies that these two objects are not generated by MetaPost. > > Is it possible to redefine the "point height" symbol so it draws a square > box > around the value? > > Thanks! > -- > Bill Gee > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion >
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