Am Montag, 9. Mai 2016, 08:41:45 schrieb Bruce <bruce@tomo.co.nz>:
- I would like sometimes to draw an Erzgang (ore load? lode? mineral vein?) into a mine survey. The line type Label (Beschriftung) would fit into that bill nicely. Is it possible to draw the line along to the label? You mean one line entity creating a parallel line and text? I have not seen this, but I am sure it is possible with metapost.
thanks, then I know I haven't overlooked something in the interface. I searched and found the Example 'l_u_fault' on bottom http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php?id=metapost, which I should be able to 'misuse'. But it dows not yield a dashed line (which would be perfect), but a thick, red line in the pdf output. This does not seem to be a problem of the matepost code snippet, as the strata example above (second from bottom) yields the same red line. Do you have, perhaps, any idea where this comes from? Is there something missing? I think I have seen somewhere something about legend entry modification, next step I will learn that.
Or do you mean an independent line, perhaps with arrow from text to the subject of the label? For this see line arrow in by following the link below.
This I will use until I could solve the 'red line' problem: A headless arrow with a point label, as you mentioned…
The line label shrinks or stretches the text to fit the whole length of the line. See the heading 'Label' in http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/drawingchecklist#lines You have some control by adjusting the scale parameter for the line label. Personally I generally use point label, with no orientation (this way text is always 'horizontal', even after scrap morphing distortions). I use line labels from time to time for special effect or emphasis.
…here. It is good to see what others are doing to learn about good practice. Thanks and best regards, Christian