Two Line data format

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Fri Dec 18 04:19:57 GMT 2020


On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 09:11:11PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 03:06:11PM -0500, Richard Knapp wrote:
> > Also, if a branch ends and a new line starts, do I need to copy the
> > *data directive again? ie I finish the trend above then do a new
> > passage from A1 to A15.
> 
> You ought to be able to just say "*data" alone to keep the current style
> but reset any state (since 1.2.31) but I just tried this and it actually
> ignores the data that follows due to a stupid bug (and this happens for
> any style, including "passage" data which was what motivated adding it).
> I'll fix that for the next release.

Actually, for interleaved data a blank line ends the current traverse
so you can do:

*data normal station newline tape compass clino

1
  1.00 000 0
2
  1.00 090 0
3

2
  1.00 180 0
4
  1.00 270 0
5

I think this may not be covered in the manual - I'll have a better look
and add it if not.

Cheers,
    Olly



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