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| 8 | <H1>Survex To-Do List</H1> |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | <H2>3d format</H2> |
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| 12 | <ul> |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | <li>sort out XSECT - I'm sure I meant there to be 1 and 2 byte forms, not 2 |
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| 15 | and 4 - 4 byte is only useful if a passage dimension is > 327.67m! |
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| 17 | <li>store equated stations in some way |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | <li>store legs by end stations rather than repeating coordinates over and |
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| 20 | over? |
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| 22 | </ul> |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | <H2>Aven</H2> |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | <ul> |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | <li>loading a .3d file with no survey data (or which has a valid header but is broken later) with a survey already loaded doesn't work well. |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | <li>After keyboard controlled movement, the measuring line/circle doesn't |
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| 31 | reappear until the mouse is moved (e.g. plan/elevation transition with P/L). |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | <li>Fix depth clipping on grid |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | <li>Reword "Shift Survey Left", etc? |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <li>Does anyone use Controls->"Reverse Sense"? It made some sense with |
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| 38 | caverot but now seeing the mouse pointer makes people expect the default |
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| 39 | motions (for right button drag particularly). |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | <li>Clean up export.cc and allow scale, line width, etc to be specified |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | <li>Better handling of missing LRUD values |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | <li>Smooth wrinkles in presentation code (stop pres on Open or |
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| 46 | New, changing focus on listctrl as presentation plays doesn't really work |
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| 47 | properly) |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | <li>Draw the measuring line directly onto the front buffer, so we can remove it |
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| 50 | with a copy from the back buffer and redraw it in the new position without a |
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| 51 | re-render. |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | <li>Round the measuring line coords so the ring is a nice shape? Or just |
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| 54 | antialias the ring, "there" blob and line? |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | <li>Process all pending input before rerendering to improve responsiveness. |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | <li>Check timing code - we need to glFinish to ensure it's all drawn, and that |
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| 59 | may be needed to get meaningful timing info. |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | <li>Add "colour by survey" - colour by cave (and more generally by sub-prefix): |
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| 62 | maybe "aven --survey 161 --colour-by-sub-prefix all.3d" would result in |
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| 63 | lhroute, rhroute, adrian, etc all getting different colours... |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | <li>Implement "Skip blank pages" in aven printing |
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| 66 | |
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| 67 | <li>Terrain data (patch from PhilU) "surface.png is for a textured landscape -- |
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| 68 | there needs to be a menu option to select the texturing on/off, and this should |
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| 69 | be the texture used. map.png is just a different surface overlay for Loser." |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | <li>different keyboard layouts mean that some key choices don't make much sense... |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | <li>Easy way to "print extended elevation" |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | <li>Optional lazy label redraw during drags? Or turn on at some redraw time |
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| 76 | threshold... |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <li>Some way to view older/newer version of survey |
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| 79 | |
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| 80 | <li>Label lengths aren't considered when working out image size when |
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| 81 | printing so a long label can spill off the edge of the printout |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | <li>print to an image file? |
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| 84 | |
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| 85 | <li>grid on printouts |
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| 86 | <ul> |
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| 87 | <li>grid crosses option (only draw cross at intersections, not a full grid). |
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| 88 | <li>[(x,y) of a point to go through (easting, northing) |
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| 89 | <li>x spacing, y spacing (default to x spacing) |
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| 90 | <li>orientation (bearing of y-axis?) (defaults to 0)] |
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| 91 | </ul> |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | <li>Profile aven further (for both speed and memory usage) |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | <li>by default put crosses on those points with no legs attached (unused |
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| 96 | fixed points)? |
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| 97 | |
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| 98 | <li>label junctions/dead ends? |
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| 99 | |
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| 100 | <li>section colouring/selective labelling |
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| 101 | |
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| 102 | <li>clipping - want to select a clip sphere (or maybe cube) centred on |
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| 103 | centre on rotation I think. |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | <li>Some way to display all the names of an equated station (e.g. in pop-up |
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| 106 | window or the info panel). |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | <li>check on monochrome, 16, and 256 colour displays - especially that depth |
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| 109 | colouring looks OK |
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| 110 | |
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| 111 | <li>Feed back redraw time to key based movement as in caverot? Or perhaps best |
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| 112 | not to? It depends on whether we expect people to hold down keys or not... |
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| 113 | Perhaps something smart where the first press is a fixed size, then after that |
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| 114 | it depends on the redraw? |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | <li>Save cavern log from aven? |
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| 117 | |
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| 118 | <li>improve .plt export to include less crude survey structure. |
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| 119 | |
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| 120 | <li>If multiple methods for drawing crosses and/or blobs pass the |
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| 121 | visual fidelity check, check which is fastest. |
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| 122 | |
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| 123 | <li>Lots of aven things need documenting. |
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| 124 | |
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| 125 | </ul> |
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| 126 | |
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| 127 | <H2>Documentation</H2> |
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| 128 | |
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| 129 | <ul> |
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| 130 | |
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| 131 | <li>Platform specific versions of docs? |
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| 132 | |
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| 133 | <li>Put more terms in terminology in docs ? trip, instrument, ... |
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| 134 | |
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| 135 | <li>Finish off manual loose ends. |
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| 136 | |
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| 137 | <li>Look at using docbook2man instead of docbook-to-man (command is |
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| 138 | <i>nsgmls man_aven.sgml | sgmlspl /usr/lib/perl5/sgmlspl-specs/docbook2man-spec.pl</i>). Issues are: double space between sentences is lost; |
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| 139 | double blank lines appear in output. |
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| 141 | <li>Make sure there's documentation for all the various settings in print.ini |
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| 142 | (colours aren't documented at present) |
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| 143 | |
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| 144 | <li>Document dump3d |
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| 145 | |
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| 146 | <li>Look at rewording extend.sgml (AndyA comments) |
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| 147 | |
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| 148 | </ul> |
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| 149 | |
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| 150 | <H2>Internationalisation and Localisation</H2> |
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| 151 | |
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| 152 | <ul> |
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| 153 | |
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| 154 | <li>Update translations. |
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| 155 | |
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| 156 | <li>control of output units in .err file and in stats at end of cavern run? |
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| 157 | In fact anywhere we report a value in degrees or metres, the units should be |
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| 158 | selectable |
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| 159 | |
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| 160 | </ul> |
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| 161 | |
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| 162 | <H2>Test Suite</H2> |
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| 163 | |
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| 164 | <ul> |
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| 165 | |
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| 166 | <li>test diving data with compass omitted (plumbed) |
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| 167 | |
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| 168 | <li>more tests for direction |
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| 169 | |
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| 170 | <li>improve 3d torture test and try to automate its use if possible. |
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| 171 | |
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| 172 | <li>Compass .mak and .plt and CMAP .xyz in test suite? |
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| 173 | |
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| 174 | <li>img.c: explicitly test routines in test suite? |
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| 175 | |
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| 176 | </ul> |
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| 177 | |
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| 178 | <H2>Miscellaneous</H2> |
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| 179 | |
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| 180 | <ul> |
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| 181 | |
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| 182 | <li>resolve FIXMEs in code |
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| 183 | |
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| 184 | <li>diffpos: compare connectivity (i.e legs as well as stations) - e.g. |
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| 185 | |
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| 186 | <pre> |
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| 187 | foo.1 moved by (0.02, 0.10, -0.06) |
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| 188 | leg between foo.1 and bar.2 removed |
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| 189 | ... |
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| 190 | bar.2 moved by (-0.02, -0.05, 0.03) |
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| 191 | </pre> |
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| 192 | |
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| 193 | </ul> |
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| 194 | |
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| 195 | <H2>Cavern</H2> |
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| 196 | |
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| 197 | <ul> |
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| 199 | <li>This gives "*** Singular!!!" warning with DEBUG_INVALID on: |
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| 200 | <pre> |
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| 201 | 1 2 50000 0 - |
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| 202 | 1 2 5 0 -30 |
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| 203 | </pre> |
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| 204 | |
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| 205 | <li>Default variance for topofil counter? (currently same as that of tape) |
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| 207 | <li>Rather than forming a linked list of components, solve each as it is |
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| 208 | identified? Beware of issues like those that revcomplist test checks. |
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| 209 | |
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| 210 | <li>Don't split other traverses at articulating traverses when reporting error |
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| 211 | stats. |
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| 212 | |
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| 213 | <li>sort out title which goes in .3d file for this (if no *includes in ... |
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| 214 | it gets the title of the leafname of this .svx file, otherwise it's the |
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| 215 | leafnames of the *include-d files, comma-separated): |
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| 216 | |
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| 217 | <pre> |
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| 218 | *begin mycave |
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| 219 | *title "My Cave" |
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| 220 | ... |
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| 221 | *end mycave |
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| 222 | </pre> |
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| 223 | |
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| 224 | <li>look at solution by QR factorisation in matrix.c more |
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| 225 | |
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| 226 | <li>consider disabling the more expensive asserts - turning them all off |
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| 227 | speeds up cavern by about 10%. |
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| 228 | |
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| 229 | <li> |
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| 230 | Warn bearings not 3 digits, gradient not <sign><digit><digit> |
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| 232 | <li>cavern: auto declination? |
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| 234 | <li>Sort out gross error detection code |
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| 236 | <li>For warnings such as "Suspicious compass reading", report the reading |
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| 237 | in question in the error message (in the text form given in the file). |
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| 238 | Also report values when warning about problems with processed readings. |
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| 239 | |
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| 240 | <li>legs: implied flags: inloop/plumb |
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| 241 | |
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| 242 | <li>legs: "dubious" for "tapeless" legs - bearing along continuation... |
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| 243 | |
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| 244 | <li>station flags: "important" - e.g. top camp "fixed" point / |
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| 245 | junction,deadend (implied by order) / |
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| 246 | articulation pt (know for nodes I think a station is if at least one |
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| 247 | of its nodes is) |
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| 248 | |
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| 249 | <li>Maybe station lists should know how long they are? |
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| 250 | |
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| 251 | <li>Articulation point code: ideally the articulation point code should allow |
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| 252 | further network reductions to happen after splitting at articulation |
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| 253 | points? |
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| 254 | |
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| 255 | </ul> |
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| 256 | |
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| 257 | <H2>Survex file format</H2> |
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| 258 | |
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| 259 | <ul> |
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| 260 | |
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| 261 | <li>*fix with datums etc |
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| 262 | |
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| 263 | <li>*data chamber ... |
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| 264 | |
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| 265 | <li>*data nsew ... for pitches (bearings rather than having to be NSEW) |
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| 266 | |
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| 267 | <li>Allow angles as deg/min/sec (for theodolite data) (060°10'15" as 060 10 |
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| 268 | 15, or 060.1005 (crap notation)) |
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| 269 | |
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| 270 | <li>Add support for bearings of form N20E (ie [NS][0-9]+[EW])? |
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| 271 | |
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| 272 | <li>should % after a clino reading work? |
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| 273 | |
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| 274 | <li>Fixing a point by triangulation? |
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| 275 | |
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| 276 | <li>multiple readings: |
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| 277 | <p> |
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| 278 | average bearings specially - they don't average like normal numbers |
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| 279 | <p> |
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| 280 | %age gradients should probably average the same as angle gradients |
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| 281 | <p> |
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| 282 | Document - works like so: |
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| 283 | <pre> |
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| 284 | *set open { |
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| 285 | *set close } |
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| 286 | *calibrate compass {000.5 001.0 001.25} |
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| 287 | 1 2 10.23 {000 001} -02 |
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| 288 | 2 3 {10.16 10.17} 127 {+06 +05} |
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| 289 | 3 4 11.98 007 {+03 +03} |
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| 290 | </pre> |
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| 291 | Implement as extension to number format so any suitable numeric value to be |
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| 292 | repeated? |
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| 293 | <li>Theodolite + level: |
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| 294 | <ul> |
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| 295 | <li>delta(bearing (relative to 0 at start) |
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| 296 | <li>delta(horizontal) |
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| 297 | <li>delta(vertical) / maybe "clino" instead |
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| 298 | </ul> |
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| 299 | |
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| 300 | <li>Theodolite only: |
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| 301 | <ul> |
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| 302 | <li>delta(bearing (relative to 0 at start) |
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| 303 | <li>delta(horizontal) |
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| 304 | <li>infinite sd for z |
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| 305 | </ul> |
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| 306 | |
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| 307 | <li>Infinite sds so we can fix in x and y only (or z only)? |
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| 308 | |
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| 309 | <li>legs: "commented out" flag? syntax check data but otherwise ignore |
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| 310 | |
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| 311 | <li>legs: hydrology - fossil/active/not recorded/static water/underwater |
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| 312 | (sump) [diving underwater by default? except style can mean altimeter |
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| 313 | too...] |
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| 314 | |
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| 315 | <li>legs: floor type - mud/sand/breakdown/flowstone/etc and can then used |
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| 316 | LRUD to draw crude survey... |
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| 317 | |
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| 318 | <li>Allow valid range for an instrument to be specified. Tie in with |
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| 319 | *instrument. *units date - ranges for dates - e.g. "1990-" or |
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| 320 | "jun-aug"... |
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| 321 | |
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| 322 | <li>cope with any combination of readings which gives enough info ??? |
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| 323 | |
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| 324 | <li>leg and station "comments": |
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| 325 | |
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| 326 | <pre>*data passage station left right up down comment |
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| 327 | |
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| 328 | 1 1.0 - 50+ 0.5 "large cairn" |
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| 329 | |
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| 330 | 2 ... |
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| 331 | |
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| 332 | *data normal station l r u d comment newline tape compass clino |
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| 333 | |
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| 334 | 1 1.0 - 50+ 0.5 "large cairn" |
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| 335 | |
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| 336 | 10.78 123 -03 |
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| 337 | |
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| 338 | 2 ... |
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| 339 | </pre> |
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| 340 | |
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| 341 | comment can be omitted "-" or not present if at end of line...? |
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| 342 | commentall? |
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| 343 | |
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| 344 | <li>Allow covariances to be specified in cartesian style? |
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| 345 | |
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| 346 | <li>flag legs as "skeletal" or something? (i.e. not in the cave passage) - |
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| 347 | e.g. a radiolocation leg from one passage to another isn't surface, |
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| 348 | but it isn't in the cave itself either (it's through rock). You could |
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| 349 | just call it surface but maybe later we want to use the surface |
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| 350 | flag to produce points for a surface triangulation... |
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| 351 | |
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| 352 | <li>?outlaw prefixes on stations in data legs (as Todd has lobbied for) |
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| 353 | and then the prefix of a leg == prefix of each end...? |
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| 354 | |
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| 355 | <li>comma separated dates in *date? |
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| 356 | |
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| 357 | <li>Find a solution to Thilo's "." problem. |
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| 358 | |
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| 359 | <li>Units in *fix (currently metres) |
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| 360 | |
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| 361 | </ul> |
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| 362 | |
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| 363 | <H2>img library</H2> |
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| 364 | |
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| 365 | <ul> |
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| 366 | |
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| 367 | <li>eliminate duplicate img_LABELs when reading .PLT files. |
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| 368 | |
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| 369 | <li>img should return img_XSECT from Compass PLT files. |
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| 370 | |
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| 371 | <li>make img more modular (convert to C++?) |
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| 372 | |
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| 373 | <li>add support for .KST? Gary says documentation is out of date, and recent |
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| 374 | releases of winkarst have broken .KST export/import... |
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| 375 | |
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| 376 | <li>resolve documentation/examples mismatch for station based XYZ files and |
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| 377 | implement reading of legs from them. |
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| 378 | |
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