Re: [guide-user] Update "officially" posted

Bill J Gray Mar 26, 2007

Hi Larry,

"...Is it possible to turn off lunar shadow images and times
in eclipse paths? The paths seem cluttered in the new version
compared to the way they were."

(For those wondering what Larry's talking about: by default,
when you make a solar eclipse chart in Guide, you'll now see
circles indicating the coverage of the eclipse at 15-minute
intervals, plus text showing the time at one-hour intervals.)

Click on Settings... Mark Interval, and enter an "interval"
of zero. If you decide you'd really like to have the marks at,
say, five-minute intervals, then enter 5 instead. And so on.

If you'd like every sixth marker to have text indicating the
time, then click on Settings... Mark Interval again, and
enter "i6".

(This does need a better user interface. Also needed for
eclipse charts are better controls over the density of city/town
place names. You _can_ hit + to get more cities and - to get
fewer cities; you get about seven different levels of density,
from "major metropolises only" to "small cities shown".)

-- Bill