Negative numbers in a Label OFFSET, how?

[Steve Lime]

Offsets are very simple and only applied in the image coordinate system.

Steve

>>> Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> 12/28/05 6:20 PM >>>
Hi Steve,

Have you tried this using ANGLE AUTO on LINE type data?

Are the X/Y offsets in image coordinate system OR in the more useful 
rotated label coordinate system? ;)

-Steve

Steve Lime wrote:
> URL should be:
> 
> http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv48?map=/usr/local/www/docs_maps/testing/offset/test.map&mode=map
> 
> 
> 
>>>> Steve Lime <steve.lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US> 12/28/05 4:30 PM >>>
> 
> That shouldn't be the case. Offsets are applied regardless of sign.
> Here's a test case:
> 
> http://maps/cgi-bin/mapserv48?map=/usr/local/www/docs_maps/testing/offset/test.map&mode=map
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
>>>> Bob Basques <bob.basques at CI.STPAUL.MN.US> 12/28/05 1:44 PM >>>
> 
> All,
> 
> My OFFSET values are being interpreted as Positive even though they
> are negative numbers.
> 
> Actually only the "y" value is doing this, the X value seems to be 
> working just fine.
> 
> Do I need to quote the "-" signs or something in the MAP file?
> 
> I didn't see anything in the Reference page about it.
> 
> bobb
>