[GRASS5] [bug #3653] (grass) changing regions within ps.map file

[Moritz Lennert]

On Mon, September 19, 2005 14:25, Request Tracker said:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3653
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>
> Subject: changing regions within ps.map file
>
> Platform: GNU/Linux/i386
> grass obtained from: CVS
> grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
>
> Hello,
>
> Would it be very difficult to implement the possibility to change regions in a
> single ps.map instruction file ? This would allow creating layouts with
> several maps, such as one of a large region and one of a zoom in one single
> run. Right now I have to create two ps.map instruction files, run them
> separately and change region in between, and then put them together in a
> drawing program.
>
> Maybe a "simple"(?) ps.map element allowing to launch a system command could
> be a  solution ? But this obviously depends on how binding the order of
> commands in ps.map is. Otherwise, adding a "region" element to the individual
> map commands, such as:
>
> vareas MyMap1
>   region XXX
> end
> vareas MyMap
>   region YYY
> end


Just realised that ps.map actually doesn't allow placing several seperate maps
in one run, or have I missed something ? So this would obviously be a
precondition. Something in the lines of d.frames, but in ps.map...

Moritz