Re: psxy and segment headers

Hi Christian-

OK, fixed in r13394.  It will accept -Sf or -Sq with no args and wait for segment header parsing.
-p


On Jul 30, 2014, at 5:26 AM, Christian Heine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Paul, Russell,
> 
> by pure coincidence, I just wanted to plot plate boundaries using the same file myself and struggled a bit (should read my own blog I suppose)... However, the command you specify below works for me as expected on Mac OS X 10.9 using 5.1.2_r13178 [64-bit], it also did work on older version. Maybe some file encoding issues?
> 
> This feature was implemented by Paul in early Feb 2012 (going by my email), not sure which GMT version this corresponds to but I reckon it was an early GMT 5 version. So it's been around for a bit.
> 
> @Paul: related to this - why is it necessary to specify the symbol size in the call to psxy when it is specified for all segment headers? When I try to call "gmt psxy -S" on that very same file Russ is quoting, I get:
> 
> psxy: Segment header tries to switch to a line symbol like quoted line or fault - ignored
> 
> Also, it seems that there are some stray fault symbols being plotted on the left side of the map beyond the map boundaries, see attached PS/PDF file.
> 
> Command:
> gmt psxy -JN180/22 -Rg PB2002_boundaries.gmt -W0.5p,red -Sf0.25/3p -Gred -Ba30 > out.ps
> 
> [GMT5 version as specified above]
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
> 
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> <out.pdf>
> On 30 Jul 2014, at 1:18 am, Paul Wessel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Pretty sure this requires at least 5.1.1 or later (i.e., svn version).
>> -p
>> 
>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Russell Cuthbertson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to implement the mods that Christian Heine
>>> (http://tectonicwaters.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/plate-boundaries-for-gmt5s-p
>>> sxy/) has done to Peter Bird's tectonic plates file
>>> (peterbird.name/oldFTP/PB2002/). 
>>> The -Sf section headers are meant to create the various symbols for each
>>> type of plate boundary. 
>>> 
>>> The command is meant to be:
>>> psxy -J -R PB2002_boundaries.gmt -W0.5p,red -O -Sf0.25/3p -Gred
>>> -Ba30:."Bird's_Plate_Boundaries" >> out.ps
>>> 
>>> But all I get is:
>>> psxy: Warning: # not a valid number and may not be decoded properly.
>>> psxy: Mismatch between actual (2) and expected (3) fields near line 22
>>> 
>>> Here is a snippet of the relevant bit of the file (with line numbers)
>>> 18:	#
>>> 19:	#
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> #
>>> 20:	> AF-AN Mueller et al. [1987]   
>>> 21:	> -Sf0.45/3p
>>> 22:	-0.4379 -54.8518
>>> 
>>> It appears to be recognising segment headers OK. gmtdefaults shows:
>>> IO_SEGMENT_MARKER               = >
>>> 
>>> What else is it expecting?
>>> 
>>> I'm using 5.1.0
>>> 
>>> RussC
>>> 
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>> 
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> 
> 
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