[mapserver-users] Label wrapping question

[Rahkonen Jukka (Tike)]

Hi,

Send us some screen captures  of wrapped labels before and after your change. I feel that your change would make sense.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

Dejan Gambin wrote:
 
> In the meantime, I have slightly changed msWrapText() function in maplabel.c to
> get what I wanted. If someone is interested I can share the short piece of code.
> 
> regards, dejan
> 
> 
> On 23. ruj. 2014., at 12:32, Dejan Gambin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some users wishing to use long legend labels, but they don't fit well on
> my site. As I can see, MapServer is doing this - if maxlength > 0 and wrap = 'char'
> (usually space), insert a new line at the FIRST wrap character found AFTER
> maxlength character. This is leading to some bad results (label not wrapped or
> wrapped too early).
> >
> > My question is - shouldn't it be better to wrap at the LAST wrap character
> BEFORE maxlength character? Is this maybe implemented somewhere or there
> are plans for this?
> >
> > Thanks very much
> >
> > regards, dejan
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