[GRASS5] d.grid with numbers

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Wed Oct 19 05:14:52 EDT 2005


Hamish wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just added text support for d.grid. Text takes the color of the grid
>lines. It formats lat & lon pretty too. I added in the (minimal)
>infrastructure to allow Bob's new geogrid capability to draw it too, but
>I leave it to him to mess with his code. It would mostly be a cut &
>paste job from plot_grid(), but with a little more trig ;) to get the
>screen start coordinates and rotation factor correct.
>
>I don't guarantee that FreeType fonts (set with d.font.freetype) won't
>fall off the edge of the screen as the width may be slightly more than
>the default fonts'. I tested Vera.ttf and that still looked ok. If it's 
>a problem with a common font we can tweak the numbers inwards a little.
>
>No test to stop overlapping numbers.
>
>You can disable it with the -t flag.
>
>I don't have any plans to allow the text color to deviate from the grid
>line color, but of course someone else is free to add it if they want
>that. I think the default colors should match anyhow.
>  
>
Very nice, Hamish!

Markus




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