[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Mon Jun 12 02:48:35 EDT 2006


More generally, to make the d.* commands most efficiently useable from the
command line and for scripting, it makes sense to add a font= option to all
that need it. That is, d.legend by itself should be able to set which font
it uses. It can already set everything else except the font.

Michael
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Arizona State University

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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 06:17:20 +0100
> To: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <grassuser at grass.itc.it>, <michael.barton at asu.edu>,
> <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m
> 
> Regardless of having a configurable global font, any command which
> draws text should allow the user to specify a particular font for that
> command. Trying to use d.font[.freetype] with command layers in gis.m
> isn't practical.




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