DESCRIPTION
v.label makes a label-file from a GRASS vector file
with labels created from attributes in the attached table.
NOTES
Rotated labels produced by this module are supported by ps.map only.
A description of the labels file follows.
The file is located in $MAPSET/paint/labels/.
The file is a plain-text ASCII file containing the following fields:
Caution: The following information may be incomplete, out of date,
and wrong!
The label information that must be provided in the labels file is:
- TEXT:
-
Lines in multiple line labels will appear one above the next.
More than one line of text can be specified by notating the end of a
line with a '\n'.
(e.g. SPEARFISH\nSOUTH DAKOTA).
- LOCATION:
- Determines where the text will be located on the
image. The user specifies the easting and northing, and
(optionally) specifies a vertical and horizontal
offset from the specified easting/northing.
These offsets are provided to allow finer placement of labels and
are measured in local pixels. Thus in
d.paint.labels the offset is
measured in screen pixels, and in ps.map
the offset is measured in PostScript points (i.e. 1/72" steps).
- PLACEMENT:
- Determines which part of the label to which the
location refers. If placement is unspecified, the label is
centered (center), by default. Label placement
may be specified as:
lower left (lower left corner of the text)
lower right (lower right corner of the text)
lower center (bottom center of the text)
upper left (upper left corner of the text)
upper right (upper right corner of the text)
upper center (top center of the text)
center (center of the text)
- FONT:
- This specifies the font to use. The following fonts are
available:
cyrilc gothgbt gothgrt gothitt greekc greekcs greekp greeks
italicc italiccs italict romanc romancs romand romans romant
scriptc scripts
The word standard can be used to specify the default font
(which is romans).
Note ps.map can override this setting
to use other fonts; and d.paint.labels
can be used with d.font to change the
default font, or d.font.freetype
can be used to make the standard GRASS font something prettier.
- TEXT SIZE:
- This determines the size of the letters. The size
specifies the vertical height of the letters in meters on
the ground. Thus text will grow or shrink depending on the
scale at which the map is drawn.
Alternatively fontsize can set the font size in normal font points.
- TEXT COLOR:
- This selects the text color. If unspecified, the
label's text is drawn in black, by default. The
text color can be specified in one of four ways:
- By color name:
aqua black blue brown cyan gray green grey indigo
magenta orange purple red violet white yellow
- As red, green, blue percentages.
for example: .5 .4 .7
(This form is not supported by
d.paint.labels.)
- By printer color number to get the exact printer color.
(This form is not supported by
d.paint.labels.)
- Specify none to suppress the lettering.
- WIDTH:
- This determines the line thickness of the border box.
(d.paint.labels ignores
this value and always uses 1.)
- HIGHLIGHT COLOR:
- The text can be highlighted in another color so that it
appears to be in two colors. The text is drawn first in
this color at a wider line width, and then redrawn in the
text color at the regular line width. No highlight color
(none) is used, by default, if unspecified by the
user. To specify use of no highlight color, specify
none.
(See TEXT COLOR
above for a list of permissible color names.)
- HIGHLIGHT WIDTH:
- Specifies how far from the text lines (in units of
pixels) the highlight color should extend. The default
highlight width is set to 0 (i.e., no highlight
color).
- BACKGROUND COLOR:
- Text may be boxed in a solid color by specifying a background color.
Specify none for no background. The default background color
setting, if unspecified by the user, is white.
(See TEXT COLOR
above for a list of permissible color names.)
- BORDER COLOR:
- Select a color for the border around the background.
Specify none to suppress the border.
The default border color used, if unspecified, is black.
(See TEXT COLOR
above for a list of permissible color names.)
- OPAQUE TO VECTORS:
- yes|no. This field only has meaning if a
background color is selected. yes will prevent
vector lines from entering the background. no
will allow vector lines to enter the background. The
default setting, if unspecified by the user, is
yes.
SEE ALSO
d.paint.labels
ps.map
AUTHOR
Philip Verhagen (original s.label)
Radim Blazek
Last changed: $Date$