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@@ -35,10 +35,20 @@ This page outlines step 3 of the survey production process. Each step is documen
<ul>
<li>Either you can create a new file and use a text-editor on the <em>expo laptop</em>, as described immediately below,
<li>Or you can use the online system using a web browser from any computer anywhere. This is much, much easier. To do this you need to
be somewhat confident of the name (the surveytripid) you will be using. Instructions are
be somewhat confident of the name (the 'surveytrip' id) you will be using. Instructions are
<a href="#onlinesvx">at the bottom of this page</a>. <br>[This capability has been broken for many years. It is now fully restored in 2020.]
</ul>
<div class="onleft">
<figure>
<a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/204/midlevel/110_bidet.svx">
<img src="notex.jpg" width="700px"></a>
<figcaption style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;">
<em>Typical raw survex data - 'bidet' in Steinbr&uuml;ckenh&ouml;hle, Martin Green 14/8/2000</em>
</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<h3 id="survexformat">Typing in the survey data in survex format</h3>
@@ -65,6 +75,7 @@ ensure that it is <em>saved, committed, </em>and<em> pushed</em> appropriately t
<li><font color=red>[survex software docm.]</font> <a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/svxhowto.htm">Contents of .svx files</a> - How do I?
<li><font color=red>[survex software docm.]</font> <a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/genhowto.htm">How do I Create a new survey</a> - example with several surveys joined
<li><font color=red>[survex software docm.]</font> <a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/datafile.htm">Survex data files</a> - all the sections and keywords explained
<li><font color=red>[tunnel software docm.]</font> <a href="/expofiles/tunnelwiki/wiki/pages/File_Formats.html">Survex data files</a> - introduction and explanation
</ul>
<p>Once you have created the .svx file you will run survex to check that your format is correct without typos
@@ -75,7 +86,7 @@ scan it again and then use that scanned image to digitise passage layout into tu
<ul>
<li><a href="athome.htm">Back in the UK</a> - not really part of the process
<li><a href="/expofiles/presentations/cave_surveying_20130626.pdf">Cave Surveying - training course slidepack</a>
<li><a href="../survexhiustory96.htm">History of Survex (1996)</a></li>
<li><a href="../survexhistory96.htm">History of Survex (1996)</a></li>
</ul>
<p>[Nerds: survex cave data belongs in the <a href="../computing/repos.html">repository</a> :loser: so e.g.
@@ -116,6 +127,7 @@ straighforward p10.
</p>
<h3><a id="onlinesvx">Using the direct online system</a></h3>
<p>This is where you type up the hand-scrawled notes directly into a a web browser, creating a new online survex file automatically in the right place on the online system.
<p>Having confirmed the right name to use for your cave, including whether it is in area 1623 or 1626, e.g.
<pre>
caves-1623/2050-cucc-01/easybimble.svx
@@ -124,11 +136,12 @@ open a web browser on the equivalent page
<pre>
http://expo.suvex.com/survexfile/caves-{area}/{cave}/{surveytripid}.svx
</pre>
e.g.
where {area} will be 1623 or 1626, and for a new discovery, {cave} will be something like 2050-BH-01 if it is the third cave disovered by
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew on the 2050 expo, e.g.
<pre>
<a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2050-CUCC-01/easybimble.svx">/survexfile/caves-1623/2050-CUCC-01/easybimble.svx</a>
<a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2050-BH-03/easybimble.svx">/survexfile/caves-1623/2050-BH-03/easybimble.svx</a>
</pre>
and a suvex-file editing page will open, pre-populated with an example template
and a survex-file editing page will open, pre-populated with an example template
for survex data, most of which you will delete and replace. Edit this template and type in your own data.
<p>You can save your work by pressing the "Save this edited svx file" button, but it
will refuse to save until you have hand-edited out all the template material in [square brackets].
@@ -172,7 +185,7 @@ typing up your notes.
<p>If you have a complex cave like 204 or 161 with many separate exploration zones then you can put subfolder names in the
URL bar e.g.
<pre>
<a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2050-CUCC-01/murderalley/killerclimb/easybimble.svx">survexfile/caves-1623/2050-CUCC-01/murderalley/killerclimb/easybimble.svx</a>
<a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2050-BH-03/murderalley/killerclimb/easybimble.svx">survexfile/caves-1623/2050-BH-03/murderalley/killerclimb/easybimble.svx</a>
</pre>
and the intermediate directories will be created on the server if they don't already exist. This is in addition to
the directory name which is also the name of your new cave being created automatically.