Karen Bryant (kbryant@ncrds.er.usgs.gov) wrote:
I am attempting to compose a map [using ps.map]....
... The title, colortable,
vector, comments, grid, and header will not display on the map.ps.map instruction file:
verbose 2
scale 1:24000
maploc 4.875 6.625
raster dtidw_dstrb_rt
setcolor 0 white
setcolor 1 cyan
setcolor 2 magenta
end <---------------- incorrect
colortable y
where 15 30.375
font romant
fontsize 14
color black
end
etc.....
The "end" that I have pointed out here is the reason that nothing
but the raster layer appears in the output. It needs to be deleted.
Unlike other ps.map instructions that are used to design and place
map elements, the "raster" instruction is not terminated with an
"end". The "setcolor" instructions are independent of the "raster"
instruction, and they, too, do not terminate with an "end".
The "end" that Karen uses here is read by the program as the
termination of the entire script, so only the instructions before
it are processed.
(It is a reasonable mistake - I think all the map element instructions
should have the same format. The reason the "raster" instruction is this
way in ps.map is because it is this way in p.map. Apparently, p.map
was written when GRASS was almost totally raster-oriented, and the
"raster" instruction was considered unique compared to others.)
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Scott Wade
wade@vinny.cecer.army.mil
Technical Assistance Center
U. S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories
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