Hi Andrea,
Thanks for the clarification. In that case the followLine=false would be
optimal for our use-case scenario (and in practice it seems to be too).
I updated the docs with this straight-line behaviour as a note.
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 5 August 2013 11:14, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jonathan Moules <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> However, even with followLine=false, the text still follows the line and
>> doesn't disappear. But again, my use-case is lines that are designed for
>> text. Not sure if that'll do it for you.
>>
>
> The default behavior with a LinePlacement is to put the text tangent to
> the line, at this point we don't need the line anymore, we already have the
> direction.
> With followLine we actually follow the line shape, curving along it, so we
> need a line to follow, if it's not long enough, we cannot place the label.
> As an improvement, we could simply expand the line along the tangent to
> its begin and end segments, but we don't have the code to do that right now.
> Not even sure it's desirable, if a line is too short to contain its name,
> better leave it not labelled imho, otherwise we might end up having
> super-small
> lines being drawn and their label sucking a lot of space and preventing
> longer lines to be labelled (the moment we go out of the line the chance of
> collisions increases a lot)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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