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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Cave Description</h2>
<h1>Adding Cave Descriptions</h1>
<h2>In the survex file</h2>

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<em>Description of FischGesicht trip on 2018.07.24 (click to open in editor)</em>
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<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. 
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[from <a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2017-cucc-24/couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx"><em>couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx</em></a>]
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<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.


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<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. 

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