[Expo-tech] Therion advice wanted - *ref equivalent ?

[Wookey]

On 2020-04-10 01:56 +0100, Philip Sargent (Gmail) wrote:
> Tunnel files can contain references to survex files.
> 
> But so far as I can see, none of our Therion files have such references.
> Is there any way we could agree on a "standard comment format" of some kind
> so that we can do this?

> (Survex files didn't have the *ref field for many years but we used the
> comment ;ref instead .)

Right, so the obvious thing to do is put in
#ref 2040#00


> The reason is that we can do data consistency checking with Tunnel now,
> checking that the links actually go to valid files (once we have got rid of
> the obvious "C:\REBECCA\... stuff) but we can't do anything comparable with
> Therion - or can we ?

Note that our therion files, like our tunnel files, do not necessarily
map to one wallet as they are often collections of multiple surveys
drawn up together. (Survex files don't have to either but the ones
containing survey data, which are the ones containing wallet refs, usually do).

Still you can put in a list of wallets in a .th file if that's the case.

.th2 files are reasonably likely to correspond to one wallet as one is
often the drawing (scraps) for that survey.

So yes that seems like a sensible thing to be doing. 

And filing a request for therion to add an explicit syntax for this
concept would be a good idea too.

Wookey
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