[Qgis-developer] New Labelling engine : multiline and "curve" option ?

[Martin Dobias]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM, kimaidou <kimaidou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to label road data (from OSM) within Qgis 1.7.2 using the new
> labelling engine.
> I set up a new columns in Postgis to store the name with a line break after
> the second space.
>
> I would like to use the "curve" option in the advanced tab, but it seems
> this options does not allow to have multiline labels?

Multi-line labels and curved placement simply do not fit well
together: with curved labels you place the characters on a line -
further lines would be aligned incorrectly.

Martin