[Therion] Scaling text and text orientation

[Bruce Mutton]

Yes, more or less like that, except perhaps a bit trickier, in that the
'text' should detect how far offset it needs to be to just clear the
meanderings of any nearby cave walls or other lines.  It could be very
problematic with convoluted drawings I concede.

I would say that at this stage this should be quite a low priority.
Thanks
Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf
Of Stacho Mudrak
Sent: Monday, 19 November 2007 9:49 p.m.
To: therion at speleo.sk
Subject: Re: [Therion] Scaling text and text orientation

Quoting Bruce Mutton <bruce.mutton at 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.
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