On 18 March 2017 at 06:40, Tobias Wendorff <tobias.wendo...@tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Since I've developed a way, how to shorten label the automatic way > for ArcGIS, Mapnik and Mapserver, I'm missing this feature in QGIS. > I love working with QGIS and telling other people, how to use it. Thanks for the clarification - it's hard to read tone over email sometimes :) I should add... I also would like this feature. In fact, I've already sketched out a plan to implement it. Basically QGIS' labeling engine needs a way to register multiple labels for a feature, with a customised cost for each. The placement engine then needs a concept of "mutually exclusive" labels - i.e. label candidates where only a single candidate in the mutually exclusive group can be used in the final labeling solution. This way multiple approaches could be used to specify the list of possible alternative labels + their corresponding cost: this could be via python, via data defined overrides, or just a simple dropdown "alternative label" combo. Not *huge* changes, but anything touching on the placement engine brings a certain degree of complexity just by the nature of that code. That said, I'm unlikely to take this any further myself unless I get a complex mapping job which just can't be done without this feature (or sponsorship). It falls firmly into the "too long to just whip up for the sake of it, too complex to be an enjoyable coding job just for coding's sake" category! Nyall _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user