[Qgis-developer] Some questions about labelling

[Martin Dobias]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:28 PM, kimaidou <kimaidou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have some questions regarding labelling options. I search in the list with
> the nabble search tool, but could not find the answers to these following
> questions :
>
> * is there a way in Qgis to display the label along a linestring, e.g. for
> contours or rivers ? The best would be as mapnik does, folling the
> linestring :
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.617869&lon=3.901034&zoom=18&layers=M

Yes, with new labelling.


> * Is there a way to wrap the label with a string parameter and a "maxlength.
> E.g. "The River of the Big Reef" would become
> "The River of
> the Big Reed"
> when applying the parameters : string = space , maxlength = 10
> Mapserver has such option : MAXLENGTH combined to WRAP

No, this is currently not possible.

Regards
Martin