Andrea Aime wrote:
> Saul Farber ha scritto:
>   
>> Great question!  I'm not sure I have an answer...anyone else have any 
>> great ideas?
>>
>> I guess you could do some math in the <size> of the box.  Have it be 
>> dependent on the length of the name string.  Anyone know how Hugo could 
>> formulate that SLD expression?  <size><Mult><Func 
>> name="length">STREET_NAME</Func><Literal>20</Literal></Mult></size
>>
>> Is there a function to get the length of a string attribute?
>>     
>
> strLength(attribute) does compute the number of chars.
> Yet I'm not sure it's what you want, since the rendered width
> of "MMMM" and "||||" is different.
> Unfortunately afaik we do not have a function that does return
> actual rendered width and height.
>
> In fact, to provide a proper answer to this problem, a new
> element similar to halo should be added to TextSymbolizer,
> since it has the same function as a halo, that is, make
> text easier to read... well, it could even be a Halo
> new attribute.
> Both would require changing published API in 2.2.x, so I'm
> not sure we're speaking about a quick change (I doubt it...
> everything handling styles would need to be changed as
> an effect, parsers, encoders, implementations of the interface...)
>   
We do support optional extensions beyond the SLD specification, for 
example we did "label shields" where a Mark could be dropped in behind the
final text position.  This box sounds like a similar idea.

Jody

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