Just added an example of what I mean. Basically it is making the dip
label follow the short tick; at the moment one has to manually adjust
the label position.

On 15 August 2017 at 15:32, Karl Magnus Jönsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
> I can't visualize, in my head, what you are trying to achieve and what's 
> going wrong. Can you supply a simple sketch?
>
> Karl-Magnus Jönsson
>
>
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> Från: Qgis-user [mailto:[email protected]] För Lester Anderson
> Skickat: den 15 augusti 2017 15:06
> Till: [email protected]
> Ämne: [Qgis-user] Strike and dip symbology and labels
>
> Hello,
>
> I have strike and dip structural geology data and would like to plot the 
> symbols with correctly positioned labels for the dip marker. The strike angle 
> can be used for the rotation in a clockwise direction, but labelling the dip 
> vector of the symbol is very hit and miss.
>
> A typical data file would be:
>
> Longitude, Latitude, Strike (clockwise from 0 degrees), dip direction 
> (orthogonal to strike).
>
> Is there an easy method to deal with this? I can manually position the labels 
> with offsets, but for a lot of data this would be a time consuming task!
>
> Thanks
>
> Lester
>
> QGIS version 2.18.11
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