[mapserver-commits] r11523 - trunk/docs/en/mapfile

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Author: tbonfort
Date: 2011-04-11 07:02:49 -0700 (Mon, 11 Apr 2011)
New Revision: 11523

Modified:
   trunk/docs/en/mapfile/label.txt
Log:
add doc for shadowsize binding (#2924)


Modified: trunk/docs/en/mapfile/label.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/en/mapfile/label.txt	2011-04-11 13:15:00 UTC (rev 11522)
+++ trunk/docs/en/mapfile/label.txt	2011-04-11 14:02:49 UTC (rev 11523)
@@ -214,11 +214,23 @@
       The associated RFC document for this feature is :ref:`RFC57`.
 
 SHADOWCOLOR [r] [g] [b]
-    Color of drop shadow.
+    Color of drop shadow. An label with the same text will be rendered in this
+    color before the main label is drawn, resulting in a shadow effect on the the
+    label characters. The offset of the renderered shadow is set with SHADOWSIZE.
 
-SHADOWSIZE [x][y]
-    Shadow offset in pixels.
+SHADOWSIZE [x][y]|[attribute][attribute]|[x][attribute]|[attribute][y]
+     Shadow offset in pixels, see SHADOWCOLOR.
 
+     [*Attribute*] was introduced in version 6.0, and can be used like:
+
+      .. code-block:: mapfile
+
+        SHADOWSIZE 2 2
+        SHADOWSIZE [shadowsizeX] 2
+        SHADOWSIZE 2 [shadowsizeY]
+        SHADOWSIZE [shadowsize] [shadowsize]
+
+
 SIZE [double]|[tiny|small|medium|large|giant]|[attribute]
     - Text size. Use "integer" to give the size in pixels of your TrueType font 
       based label, or any of the other 5 listed keywords to bitmap fonts.