<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Handbook - survex - Cave Description</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Cave Description</h2> <h1>Adding Cave Descriptions</h1> <h2>In the survex file</h2> <style>figure {font-weight: bold; font-size: small; font-family: sans-serif;font-variant-caps: small-caps;}</style> <div class="onleft"> <figure> <a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2017-cucc-28/toto_to_crystalcrumble.svx"> <img src="../i/svx-cave-descript.jpg"></a> <figcaption style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;"> <em>Description of FischGesicht trip on 2018.07.24 (click to open in editor)</em> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Cave descriptions are written at the end of the survex block - between <var>*begin</var> and <var>*end</var> statements. Conventionally just after <a href="qmentry.html">the QMs</a> and before the <var>*end</var> . <p>The description is written as a single long line of text. In the online editor it is wrapped to fit the window. <code> ;------------<br /> ;Cave description ;(leave commented-out)<br /> ; See 2017 description for details of GSH up to the 'p50'. Briefly, on the way to couldashouldawoulda a 22 m entrance crawl from the surface leads to a climb down and a junction. Left leads to easy c rawling passage for a short distance, then another junction where traversing over a shallow hole and down a stooping-height sandy passage to a sharp left turn and a sandy, easy 'squeeze' leading to a straighforward p10. </code> [from <a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2017-cucc-24/couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx"><em>couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx</em></a>] </p> <p>You can have several lines of description, as you can see if you follow the link above, but each one must be prefixed with a semi-colon otherwise the survex software will complain. <p style="margin:4%"> <em>Technical Note:</em> The syntax for a Cave Description, both the title and the text includes a leading semi-colon. So it is syntactically a "comment" so far as the survex software is concerned. <hr /> Return to "<a href="newsurvex.html">Survey handbook - survex format</a>"<br> Return to "<a href="qmentry.html">QMs (Question Marks)</a>"<br> Return to "<a href="newwallet.html">New survey wallet</a>" <hr /> </body> </html>