Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Hamish wrote: filing bug reports? go for it! there is some text on the website about how we like our bug reports.. usual stuff- add as much detail as possible, stick to specific behaivour, try the latest version first, etc. That's normal. right. "bgcolor=none" was the c

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-04 Thread Hamish
Rich wrote: > > added as bug # 855 > >   Thank you. I don't know if this is something we mere > users do directly. filing bug reports? go for it! there is some text on the website about how we like our bug reports.. usual stuff- add as much detail as possible, stick to specific behaivour, try the

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-04 Thread Hamish
Michael wrote: > In the older TclTk GUI (GRASS 6.4 and earlier), ie gis.m, not d.m, the even-older Tcl/Tk GUI which also ships with grass 6.4 ... (I tried it the other day and it still works and is remarkably nice to use btw) Hamish ___ grass

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Barton
On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:11 AM, grass-user-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:35:54 -0800 (PST) > From: Rich Shepard > Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps > To: grass-us...@lists.osgeo.org > Message-ID: > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charse

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Hamish wrote: tip: 'd.where -f' is handy for figuring out what at= should be set to. Minor trial-and-error worked well, too. Tweaking the x and y positions a percent or two, and the rotational angle a few degrees got it properly placed. However, as my later posts pointed

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-04 Thread Hamish
Rich wrote: > d.text text="Abernethy Creek" size=2 color=blue bgcolor=white \ > at=50,70 align=lr rotation=-45 font=DejaVuSerif-Bold tip: 'd.where -f' is handy for figuring out what at= should be set to. > How can I get either 1) the background color box to match > the alignment and rotation of

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps -- RESOLVED

2010-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: How can I get either 1) the background color box to match the alignment and rotation of the text or b) leave the background color box off while allowing the text to display? Found that d.text does the latter; for some reason it was out of the view ini

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Hamish wrote: you should use the v.label module if you want advanced placement control. it is one case when you are encouraged to hack the x,y offsets in the $MAPSET/paint/labels/ text file by hand. It goes well with unix power- tools. Use d.labels + d.redraw while tweaking t

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-02 Thread Hamish
Rich wrote: > My problem is that the three project-related sits are close to > each other and the labels overlap on the whole basin map. > > What I see of the xref and yref controls is they apply to all > labels. Is there a way to specify the position for each label > relative> to the site itsel

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Hamish wrote: (yeah, d.vect has an abundance of options. if overwhelmed see svn/grass-addons/display/d.shortcuts/ ) I'm not clear that either d.mark or d.stations will help. My problem is that the three project-related sits are close to each other and the labels overlap

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Hamish wrote: add display=attr display Display options: shape,cat,topo,dir,attr,zcoor default: shape A-ha! Now I understand when this option is to be used. (yeah, d.vect has an abundance of options. if overwhelmed see svn/grass-ad

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-01 Thread Hamish
Micha wrote: > Along this line, may I make a feature request/suggestion? > > In the wxpython gui, when I setup the display options for a vector > feature, the choice of which column to use for the labels is on one tab, > but the display=shape,attr,cat etc is on another tab. Even tho' I know > th

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2010-01-01 Thread Micha Silver
On 01/01/2010 02:50, Hamish wrote: Rich wrote: d.vect map=proj_pts type=point color=red icon=basic/triangle size=10 attrcol=str_1 lcolor=red bgcolor=white lsize=12 ... I don't see the text in column 'str_1' on the display. add display=attr Along this line, m

Re: [GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2009-12-31 Thread Hamish
Rich wrote: > d.vect map=proj_pts type=point color=red > icon=basic/triangle size=10 > attrcol=str_1 lcolor=red bgcolor=white lsize=12 ... >   I don't see the text in column 'str_1' on the display. add display=attr display Display options: shape,cat,topo,dir,attr,zcoo

[GRASS-user] Labels On Maps

2009-12-31 Thread Rich Shepard
There are quite a few keys related to labels in d.vect. I have a line in a script that is: d.vect map=proj_pts type=point color=red icon=basic/triangle size=10 attrcol=str_1 lcolor=red bgcolor=white lsize=12 (it's not split in the script but is here to fit the MUA.) I don't see the text in