[mapserver-dev] Re: Multiple WRAP Characters

[Christy Nieman]

Hmm, didn't hear anything from anyone, so I opened the following 
enhancement ticket: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3266

Christy

On 01/13/2010 09:56 AM, Christy Nieman wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I mailed the users list about a month ago hoping to generate some 
> discussion, but no one took the bait.
>
> I was wondering how realistic it would be to be able to specify 
> multiple wrap characters for labels.  I found some discussion in RFC 
> 40 and was wondering if there has been any further discussion.  As 
> Daniel mentioned in the comments of the RFC, a space is easy to 
> replace with a new line, but hyphens should be retained.  I have been 
> working with a France dataset and my labels look off right now with 
> wrapping happening on labels with spaces, but not with hyphens.
>
> Examples of what would ideally be handled:
> "Les Quatre Vents" wrapped on spaces if MAXLENGTH is satisfied
> "Fontenay-sur-Bois" wrapped on hyphens if MAXLENGTH is satisfied, 
> hyphens remain at ends of lines
> "Domaine de Lacroix-Laval" wrapped on spaces and and hyphens if 
> MAXLENGTH is satisfied, hyphens remain at ends of lines
>
>
> I already discussed this with Assefa before the original email I sent 
> to the users list, but wanted to hear from other developers before 
> filing an enhancement ticket.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christy