[GRASS-user] v.in.ascii syntax help needed

[Markus Neteler]

Rich,

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 2:40 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 May 2023, Maris Nartiss wrote:
>
> > On the first row you have specified a line with 5 coordinates and one
> > category (L 5 1). You have not provided the last line containing that one
> > category. Just add „1 1“ (layer 1, cat 1) as a last row and you should be
> > fine.
>
> Māris.
>
> Thank you. I searched the manual page to learn what the first and last lines
> in the example meant, but didn't find what they represent.
>
> So, on the top line 'L' means to draw lines, '5' means 5 data rows, and '1'
> means one category. And on the bottom line the layer and category number are
> defined.
>
> I'll add a recommendation to add these explanations to the manual page on
> the bug/feature request web page.

Please consider to edit the page right away:

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/main/vector/v.in.ascii/v.in.ascii.html

In the upper right of the page is a pen symbol. Then you can submit it
as a pull request by saving the changes.

Thanks
Markus

PS: Manual improvements  are always welcome!