Fw: [Mapserver-users] symbol question

[Eric Bridger]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 13:19, fx gamoy wrote:
> 
> hello
> Thanks for your post
> but i can't find any parameter CHAR in the label object...
> and mapserver don't want it.
> Do you have special configuration? ( i am running a maperver 3.6.3 release on win2000)
> thanks
> fx
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Mathieu Parent 
>   To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
>   Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 1:28 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] symbol question
> 
> 
>   fx gamoy a écrit :
> 
>     Hello world,
>     i'd like to obtain lines with oriented triangle in order to show the direction of a track.
>     I have made several test but nothing very interesting..
>     thanks in advance..
>     fx
>   Try to use a label and the "labelangleitem" attribute of the layer object.
>   Use a font with an arrow as char (Windings for example).
> 
>   LAYER
>        ...
>        LABELANGLEITEM arrow_angle
>        LABEL
>             TYPE TRUETYPE
>             ...
>             FONT windings
>             CHAR é
>        END
>   END

You can use the CLASS TEXT object.

For TrueType symbols you'd use CHARACTER in the SYMBOL object.