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XTherion -- Graphical drawing editor for Therion
SYNOPSIS
xtherion
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents XTherion, which is part of the therion package.
XTherion is an application that serves as a graphical front end for Therion. Therion itself works entirely with text-based files, but much
of the data needs to be generated graphically, so XTherion is one example of how it might be done. It is written in Tcl/Tk.
XTherion lets you load a background GIF, PPM or PNM (a scan of the cave segment or to-scale notes), scale it, then draw Therion 'scraps'
over the image, and relate it to survey stations and save the resulting data.
For full information see The Therion Book (/usr/share/doc/therion/thbook.pdf) which describes the application and its use in detail.
OPTIONS
XTherion takes no options.
SEE ALSO
therion (1)
AUTHOR
Stacho Mudrak. This manual page was written by Wookey wookey@debian.org for the Debian system. Modified by MB.
Copyright Wookey 2003, Martin Budaj 2003. This file is licenced under the GNU General Public Licence.
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Therion -- program to draw cave surveys
SYNOPSIS
therion [-q] [-L] [-l log-file]
[-s source file] [-p search path]
[-g|-u] [-i] [-d] [-x] [config-file]
therion [-h|--help]
[-v|--version]
[--print-encodings]
[--print-tex-encodings]
[--print-init-file]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents Therion and provides an overview of the package.
Therion is a program that processes Therion data files to produce cave surveys. The data files are usually .th files which contain survey
data (very similar to survex .svx files), .th2 files which contain drawing data, and thconfig files which control the data files to be used
and the maps to be output.
Therion outputs .pdf and .svg files for drawings, Survex .3d files, Compass
.PLT files and VRML files for 3D models.
Therion uses a number of helper programs to do its job. Survex is used to process the centreline data, MetaPost is used to draw cave sym-
bols, and pdfTeX generates the final maps.
In order to make the entering of drawing data practical, and to make the editing of survey files easier, a graphical editor XTherion is
included. This also includes a 'compiler' function which runs Therion on the data to produce output. This is implemented using Tcl/Tk.
The Therion data files describe the cave as text in terms of objects so the corresponding graphical representations are only inserted at
output generation time. This means that a survey can be produced using whichever symbol set you require by specifying the relevant set of
MetaPost macros. Currently the UIS symbol set is supported.
Multiple languages and character sets are supported -- currently ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-7, UTF-8, ASCII and CP1250.
ARGUMENTS
therion takes only one argument -- a config-file. If no file is specified then the default thconfig file in the current directory will be
used. A new default file can be created using the -g option.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ("--"). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see The Therion Book.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version information.
-q Quiet mode -- minimise output.
-g Generate a new configuration file. This will be the given config-file if specified, or thconfig in the current directory if not.
If the file already exists, it will be overwritten.
-i Ignore comments when writing (-g|-u) configuration file.
-L Do not create a log-file. Normally all messages are written into a therion.log file.
-l log-file
Change the name of the log file.
-p search-path
This option is used to set the search path (or list of paths, separated by colon), which therion will use to find its source
files (if it doesn't find them in the working directory).
-q Run therion in quiet mode. It will print only warning and error messages (to STDERR).
--print-encodings
Print a list of all supported encodings.
--print-init-file
Print a default initialisation file. For more details see the Initialisation section in the Appendix of the Therion Book.
-s Set the name of the source file.
-u Upgrade the configuration file.
-d Turn on debugging mode. The current implementation creates a temporary directory named thTMPDIR (in your system temporary direc-
tory) and does not delete any temporary files.
SEE ALSO
xtherion (1)
For full information see The Therion Book (/usr/share/doc/therion/thbook.pdf) which describes Therion and its use in detail.
AUTHORS
Stacho Mudrak and Martin Budaj. This manual page was originally written by Wookey <wookey@debian.org> for the Debian system, and is now
maintained by MB.
Copyright Wookey 2003, Martin Budaj 2003. This file is licensed under the GNU General Public Licence.
2003/07/15 THERION(1)