On 5 Oct 2008, at 11:31, Norbert Wenzel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list, because I wanted to report a minor issue, > which has originally been reportet to osm-talk[0]. They pointed me > to your mailing list. > > I looked into the open defects and could not find anyhting similar > to the issue I do report, but be gentle if the issue is known. > > Here's the message I previously sent to osm-talk: > I just saw the name of a golf course in Salzburg, Austria [1] which > shows a small (for Mapnik, but really big typographical) error. The > dash in the name is drawn as the first sign in a line, which is > really ugly. > > It doesn't even make any sense to draw it like that, since the last > line (the line with the dash) is the longest line, so there would > have been enough space in the previous line for the dash, without > increasing the size of the texts bounding box further than necessary. > > Anyway, in my opinion the BB doesn't even matter, because the dash > should *never* be the first sign in a line. > > Don't get me wrong, it's only a minor issue, but it's really ugly, > and if it would be easy to fix, I'd appreciate that. If it's not > easy, it should be kept in mind, but I don't think such > typographical errors are very often found on the map, so it wouldn't > need a high priority. > > cheers, > Norbert
Hi Norbert, I agree we should improve text splitting algo to take care of cases like that. Someone also suggested to interpret '\n' characters as explicit line breaks , which is good idea too, Thanks Artem > > > [0] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-October/030153.html > [1] > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=47.71974&mlon=13.06424&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
