[mkgmap-dev] Style include files

Wed Sep 5 15:27:36 BST 2012

I "would need" or think it's easiest if there would be two things:

a) include_section_XYZ from file_XYZ
and b) include_file_XYZ

So you could decide to either include a file containing several sections 
(so you can have section XY1 section XY2 and so on, for one layout, and 
section XX1 XX2 for another layout)
or
include the full content from a file.

In any case, I think naming the relative path of the file should be 
best. Copying in stuff directly from the mkgmap.jar inbuilt styles, 
might cause too much errors. You could still copy in stuff from mkgmap 
inbuilt style, by pointing the file pointer to an mkgmap svn repository 
directory.
--style-file and --style do cause confusion to many people I think.
On 05.09.2012 16:06, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
> Hi
>
>> Last year, I wanted to divide the default style into modules. It would
>> be easier to continue this with the style-include branch. Perhaps there
>> could be a 'standard library' of files that all styles (including
>> user-defined styles) could include?
> A library is a good idea.
>
> I don't think that including from other styles is a bad idea,
> the question is just how do we do it.
>
> If you are developing your own style then you can divide it
> up into as many different files that you like and place them
> all somewhere inside the style.
>
> You might want to include a file from one of the built in styles but
> then you would be relying on it not changing too much in an
> incompatible way.  Having a library of style fragments as a built in
> style might go a long way to make that more manageable.
>
> So I'll ask another question: if there was a syntax
>
>    include some-file from some-style
>
> should the some-style be restricted to a library or any built in
> style?  I am worried that --style-file and --style arguments already
> cause some confusion.
>
> ..Steve
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