[GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m

[Glynn Clements]

David Finlayson wrote:

> > I'm a bit behind on gism developments recently...can anyone tell me if
> > d.font.freetype is supported in gis.m? I tried using it to label some vector
> > points with today's cvs version, and it's still complaining about no monitor
> > being open. Is there a workaround instead?
> 
> I got it to work last week, but only if I printed a 1-word text. If I
> wanted to print text with spaces in it, I needed to use quotes around
> the sentence and this caused problems with the GUI.

Neither quotes nor braces work, althoug a backslash does, e.g.:

	d.text.freetype ... text=hello\ world

This should be reported as a bug with command layers.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>