Geof and Ravi, I think I found a solution about question: how to rotate symbols according to an attribute value. This solution doen't require extra plugins. I only us the label style function of Openjump
1) I instal my font symbol (Geology.TTF). I have
printed a reference table that show me the
corrispondence of each symbols to regular alphabet
("a" is symbol 1, "b" is symbol 2, etc)
2) I use a point dataset with two attribute values:
(TYPE_SYMBOL) one for the type of symbol, for each
symbol I give the regular letter of the alphabet (a,
b, etc).
(ANGLE) A second one is for angle attribute
3) on Change Style>label>enable labeling
label attribute = TYPE_SYMBOL
angle attribute (degrees) = ANGLE
on Change font ... I choose my geology.ttf fonts
And magically I see my geological fonts on the
workbench view
I can choose colour and dimesions of these "point"
symbols. I can't choose a label for them. But I can
use a duplicate of the point layer as a label layer.
Now I am working to a special set of font with a
regular corrispondence to the alphabet.
By the time I am ready I will post all for users
@Geof
Are you working on the same idea?
I am drawing the new version of the fonts with
Inkscape (SVG), do you know a way to import them as
SVG fonts and the as TTF fonts?
@Ravi
Together with this mail I post the most common
geological fonts that people can use. You can see them
and send me an idea about other symbols I can put on
the font set
Peppe
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