Re: [Therion] Re: Scale and Base-scale and font sizes

[Wookey]

Martin Budaj wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:26:26 +0100, Wookey wrote
> 
> 
>>Hmm, so as it goes wrong with the default (scale 1:200) that suggets 
>>I have one scrap which is >560m long. I don't think I do have 
>>anything that big (I try to keep scraps to <200m).
>>
>>If anyone cares to investigate this then the benarat dataset 
>>illustrates the problem.
> 
> 
> It's the scrap faketerikan_s15, which contains two survey stations (used for 
> calibration?) really far from the passage.

Ah yes. All those faketerikan scraps use the same two (fake) stations -
which are just two random well-spaced stations in the fake survey we
generated from the original drawing.

This scheme worked a lot better than using fake stations with each scrap
(as used on the fakebluemoon survey) - that led to a lot of distortions in
scraps where there should have been none.

> ---
> 
> How to find where the problem is:
> * therion log window displays metapost's progress, it displays [33] just 
> before the error; that means that picture number 33 has been sucessfuly 
> processed and the error is in the next one
> * run therion in the -d (debug) mode
> * go to thTMPDIR
> * open the file data.mp and find picture 34 (it starts "beginfig(34);" ;-)
> * find the "current_scrap" assignment preceding the picture
> * it's "address@hidden"

Thanx - that's useful to know. I've been wondering what all those numbers
meant :-) As you say, a message like 'scrap <foo> is too large to be
processed' would be better.

Wookey
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