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 at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-boun...@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. _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion at speleo.sk http://www.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion
