[GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m

[Michael Barton]

Actually, on the Mac, it didn't work at all--even for one word text. Also,
you can use it on a command line, but getting it to display in a TclTk
canvas is another matter.

Michael
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Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:56:42 +0100
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>, "'grassuser at grass.itc.it'"
> <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m
> 
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> D.font.freetype is not supported in gis.m. It became increasingly
>> problematic on Mac (and Windows?) platforms.
> 
> It should still be possible to use it in a command layer.
> 
> The real issue is that the way that the command string is being
> handled causes problems for arguments which contain spaces. I haven't
> looked into why this is the case; with the "obvious" implementation,
> it should be possible to use braces to prevent an argument being
> split.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>