Second thoughts Stacho, Perhaps -offset exactly as you describe in real world, unscaled millimetres would be useful, especially with the additional option of a leader line pointing to the text insertion point. Regards Bruce -----Original Message----- From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Stacho Mudrak Sent: Monday, 19 November 2007 9:49 p.m. To: therion@speleo.sk Subject: Re: [Therion] Scaling text and text orientation Quoting Bruce Mutton <bruce.mutton@paradise.net.nz>:
Doing it this way means you have to be aware of the scale of the finished product at the time of drawing. Plot at much smaller scale, and the text will be far from the drawn feature, plot at a much larger scale and the text will tend to overwrite the cave map. Using -align I can almost get my desired effect by placing the text insertion points on the passage walls near the feature in the cave to be labelled. A good enough solution if there is no specific feature for this.
Well, as far as I understand - you would like to have another option in addition to -align. Let's call it -offset and it would mean, how far from the desired feature the label should be. And this offset would be scale independent. Is it really like that? Regards, S. _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@speleo.sk http://www.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion