1. Is there any way to recover all the values of a tag that is defined as
REPEAT in the model? E.g. all the ?Text's from
?Presence Present ?Text REPEAT // e.g. 14.5 6.6 4.4
Absent ?Text REPEAT
Neither From nor Right_of in the table definition seems to work. All I get
is the first value of each REPEAT series.
2. It is possible to sort on multiple columns using the "Switch" button.
If column 3, for example, is switched into the first position, the whole
table is sorted on the column 3 values, thus:
Position(3) Map(2) Locus(1)
0 Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H aHor2
0 Hordeum-NABGMP2-2H MWG844
0 Hordeum-NABGMP2-4H WG622
0.7 Hordeum-NABGMP2-7H dRpg1
0.8 Hordeum-NABGMP2-7H Plc
1.5 Hordeum-NABGMP2-6H PSR167
2.1 Hordeum-NABGMP2-7H ABG077
2.3 Hordeum-NABGMP2-2H ABG058
...
Then by switching column 2 into the first position, the values of column 3
remain sorted within each value of column 2:
Map(2) Position(3) Locus(1)
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 0 aHor2
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 11.1 Act8A
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 81.1 MWG943
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 93.3 His4A
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 105.4 Dor3
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 119.6 AtpB
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 137.9 ABC261
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 147 ABG710B
Hordeum-NABGMP2-1H 159.3 MWG912
Hordeum-NABGMP2-2H 0 MWG844
Hordeum-NABGMP2-2H 2.3 ABG058
Hordeum-NABGMP2-2H 5.4 WG516
Hordeum-NABGMP2-2H 19.9 MWG682
...
This "Switch" interface for specifying the column to sort on has been made
more intuitive in ace4_1. There is now a field "Sort column" at the top of
the table definition window. However the new interface doesn't work for
sorting on multiple columns: setting the Sort column to 3, then to 2 leaves
column 3 scrambled again. (The "Switch" routine still works.)
3. In ace3-0 it was possible to ascii dump a table with the columns aligned
with Space characters, as in the examples above. This was a really nice
feature. I guess I should have said so while we had it, rather than waiting
to complain now that it seems to have disappeared.
4. There are a lot of really nice features in the Tablemaker.
