[Therion] New release of Cave Converter

Footleg drfootleg at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 23:16:36 BST 2014


Posting to list this time.
On 13 Apr 2014 23:15, "Footleg" <drfootleg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found a mention of set names in the Survex docs but when I searched for
> it in the help I did not find it. So I had assumed it meant something in
> the source code. I'll see if I can add this command to the output files
> rather than changing the station names in the next version.
>
> Footleg
> On 13 Apr 2014 22:53, "Olly Betts" <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 03:05:33PM +0100, Footleg wrote:
>> > - Added substitution of illegal characters in series and station names
>> to
>> > Survex format output.
>> >   Compass files allow various punctuation characters in series and
>> station
>> > names, which are not
>> >   allowed in Survex format data files. These will be substituted by an
>> > underscore character followed
>> >   by a two letter code indicating the character which was substituted
>> (e.g.
>> > '!' becomes '_ex').
>>
>> You can specify the non-alphanumeric characters for Survex to allow in a
>> station name, for example if you want "!" to work in addition to the
>> default of "_", you can use:
>>
>> *set names _!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Olly
>>
>


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