[Qgis-user] Labeling: Allow HTML Formatting, text-size and map units

[chris hermansen]

Thomas and list,

On Thu, May 16, 2024, 06:39 Thomas Schüttenberg <thomas at qgis.de> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> yes I tried that. Any css-unit I could think of as well as em, % and
> code-words (large). But only pt resulted in a visible change on the canvas.
>
> Not sure if it is just not implemented or if it is a bug.
>

So <sub>...</sub> works but <small></small> doesn't... That seems to be
surprising behaviour.

I can get that CSS style directives might not work the way one might hope
(that often happens to me in other circumstances...)

This is tempting me to experiment. Thanks for that!


> Thomas
>
> > chris hermansen <clhermansen at gmail.com> hat am 15.05.2024 21:00 CEST
> geschrieben:
> >
> >
> > Thomas and list,
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 7:20 AM Thomas Schüttenberg via QGIS-User <
> qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> > > Ha!
> > >  I found an other way around to do the trick, suitable for my use case
> at least:
> > >
> > >  1) increasing the (overall) text size setting on the text tab by 2/3
> > >  2) putting only the attributes/text strings of the second and
> following lines between <sub>...</sub> tags, which renders them about 2/3
> smaler, i.e. same as before.
> > >
> > >  The (reverse) result is a multi line label with the first line
> emphazised by its larger size! ;-)
> > >
> > >  "Bezeichnung" || '<p><sub>D ' || round("Deckelhohe",2) ||
> '</sub></p><p><sub>S ' || round( "Sohlhohe" ,2) || '</sub></p>'
> > >
> > In your first note you mentioned:
> >
> > > But only pt (points) seams to work as the unit in this place, which
> gives a fixed size throughout all scales and does not respect the behavior
> of the map units with maximum scale setting.
> >
> > I suppose you tried style="font-size: 75%;" and maybe style="font-size:
> 0.75em;", and they did not work?
> >
> > I wonder if, besides <sub>...</sub>, you might have tried
> <small>...</small>?
> > --
> >
> > Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com
> >
> > C'est ma façon de parler.
>
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