one way roads, drawing spaced arrows

[thomas bonfort]

Pattern has no effect on symbology, it's only used for drawing dashed
solid lines.
vector should show up however.
what's your symbol definition and your corresponding STYLE block ?

tb

On Jan 22, 2008 8:30 PM, rich.fromm <nospam420 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> tbonfort wrote:
> >
> > you're right the documentation is a bit off.
> > for line symbology, the rule is
> > GAP>0: symbols face north (or rotated wrt north by their ANGLE parameter)
> > GAP =0: symbol is used to 'texture' the line (useful with pixmap or
> > vector symbols)
> > GAP<0: symbol is oriented according to the line direction (this can
> > also be modified with the ANGLE parameter, eg to rectify an arrow
> > pointing 90 degrees off)
> >
>
> Okay, that indeed worked for a truetype symbol.  Thanks.
>
> But do you know about a vector symbol?  That is slightly my preference here,
> but I can't get any spacing to work.  If I try PATTERN (formerly STYLE, I
> believe), it has no effect.  The symbol is repeated as before.  If I instead
> try GAP, anything (either positive or negative) other than 0 (the presumed
> default) causes the symbol to not even be drawn at all.
>
> - Rich
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