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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Ok, let's try this again, I redid the link. . . . should work now for everyone.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I'm playing around with generating a map collar image by labeling some lines with MapServer.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I get the labels looking about what I would like them to look like, but the alignment vertically ( and this applies to horizontal  alignment as well ) is not playing nice.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">See this link: </font><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><a href="http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/SHP/FED/USGS/USNG/mn_usng_lines_labels_2_public.map?mapext=503179.6728349806%20111379.8994326578%20508281.0020239575%20135621.41573867595&mapsize=70%20600&mode=map&MOOSETIME=1241653121858"><u><i>http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/SHP/FED/USGS/USNG/mn_usng_lines_labels_2_public.map?mapext=503179.6728349806%20111379.8994326578%20508281.0020239575%20135621.41573867595&mapsize=70%20600&mode=map&MOOSETIME=1241653121858</i></u></a></font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I'm thinking that the labels are moving back and forth horizontally because of the underlying line work, It's not strictly horizontal but curved slightly, and there may or may not be a vertice visible within a view.  (Can a vertice be marked somehow?) So I think MapServer is using the longest straight segment within the view to center on for labeling.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Question, how do I get these to line up vertically (and horizontally)?  I know there was some recent justification work going on, but didn't follow it in detail.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Thanks</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Pertinent mapfile chunks:</font> </p>
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