<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Marco,<div><br><div><div>On Dec 23, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi John<br><br>Nice to hear you are enjoying the print composer.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Another legend consideration: Layer items are shown with the layer title<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> above the vector/raster symbol. It would be nice if layer titles could be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> placed directly to the right of the vector symbol with a user-configurable<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> option. This makes the most sense for single symbol vector layers, but no<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> sense for categorized layers. The legend would need to be smart enough to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> distinguish between the two and label accordingly.<br></blockquote><br>For single symbol layers, it is already possible to place the layer title next <br>to the symbol. Just enter the layer name to the symbol item and remove the <br>layer level string. Then the layer item will disappear.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>An ah-ha moment! Thanks for pointing that out. This is exactly what I was looking for.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">I really love the way text is automatically wrapped for text labels. It<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> would be very useful if legend text items would similarly wrap when<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> adjusting the width of the legend. I don't know if this is something that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> can be readily accomplished or not, but it would be helpful.<br></blockquote><br>This is a good idea. It would however need a bit extension to the legend item <br>to change it to a table structure where the user may resize the columns and <br>rows.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">An additional text box enhancement would be to allow user-selectable<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> justification of text. Options for both horizontal and vertical alignment<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> would be ideal. Vertical: top, bottom, center of text box. Horizontal:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> left, right, center justified.<br></blockquote><br>True, this would be very usefull and could be added easily (since QPainter <br>provides all the necessary options). So once the feature freeze is over...<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Indeed, the feature freeze prevents these changes. I just wanted to get my thoughts your direction to add to your list of possible enhancements.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>John</div></div></body></html>