[GRASS-user] how to control label size (v.lable)?

[Hamish]

Rei Hayashi:
> I am using a v.label command (+ d.labels command) to
> present county names in the states' maps.  I have tried
> two slightly different commands.
> 
> 1)v.label map=XXX type=centroid column=YYY labels=ZZZ fontsize=5 color=red
> 2)v.label map=XXX type=centroid column=YYY labels=ZZZ size=5 color=red
> 
> Both commands resulted in presenting same label size. 

-what version of GRASS?
-displayed with d.labels, gis.m GUI, or ps.map?
-does the $MAPSET/paint/labels/$NAME text file look ok?
-spearfish or NC dataset example?
-"works for me"


> Also, I run this commands for Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New
> Mexico, Arizona and Oregon.  Somehow, the label size in Alabama and
> Louisiana are same, but bigger than the labels in the rest of states. 
> Also, I tested different fontsize and size (i.e. 20), but the
> result stayed same way that the label size is bigger in Alabama and
> Louisiana than other rest of the states.

size= option is scale dependent, change the zoom, the text size changes.
fontsize= is fixed.


Hamish