Ian,
Label text is positioned based on the bbox enclosing the text and in the
case of your three labels the position point is the upper left corner.
If you had concatenated the text into a single line then the would have
been aligned but still positioned based on the bbox.
Thomas is more knowledgeable about the rendering engine, but I would be
concerned about any code that potentially changes how labels are placed
for fear of messing up the existing code and behavior.
In 6.2 there is support for svg symbols, it might make sense to create
an svg symbol with the text you want as you would have excellent
controls on the layout, then you could place and or scale that symbol
where you want it on the map. I was surprised when I started playing
with Inkscape (an SVG editor) that all their documentation was actually
svg files.
-Steve
On 3/15/2012 2:00 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
Folks,
Attached is an image illustrating the problem, a picture is worth a
thousand words!
All this text is at the same vertical location but as this shows the
text is not drawn as would be typical in other applications relative to
line underneath the text so that the upper and lower case align at the
bottom with any descending parts of the characters dropping below that
line.
What we would like to be able to do is use that line as the anchor point
vertically and horizontally as today left, right or centre.
We may also be able to help make the changes if we can agree what is
required.
Thanks
Ian
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Label alignment
I'm not sure I understand all of these issues, but have you tried
concatenating all the your test into a multiple line string and use a
special character as the line break indicator, say an '@' char. Then in
the LABEL block use WRAP '@'
You can also use ALIGN CENTER|LEFT|RIGHT to control the alignment of the
wrapped text.
In 6.2 (trunk) you can also have multiple LABEL blocks in a class and
can control the position of each using OFFSET x y to nudge you text into
alignment.
-Steve W
On 3/13/2012 9:26 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
Folks,
I am not sure what the correct terminology is for our current issue
but let me give explaining it a try.
We are using a label layer with transform off to display some overview
information on a map.
The text sometimes needs to be lined up horizontally or spaced evenly
vertically.
It appears that the text function is using the outer perimeter of the
text as the anchor point for the location.
So in the case where there are characters which drop below the normal
text line (e.g. g, y p, j, q) then the text is not aligned as we would
hope. The same is true for the top of the text with different
characters of course.
The text is then not aligned as you would expect if different labels
are drawn say 3 in a row horizontally at the same vertical location.
If we concatenate the labels to a single string this helps the
individual lines but is misaligned vertically.
So is there any way (or any plans) to help this? It could be that at
alignment mode that is relative to either end of the line (not sure
what it's called) under the text would be what we need. This could
also in some instances tidy up more traditional labels as they would
be draw a little more naturally relative to the point.
Looking forward to your thoughts and comments.
Thanks
Ian
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