NAME
v.label - Create paint labels for GRASS vector file and attached attributes.
SYNOPSIS
v.label
v.label help
v.label [-a] map=string [type=string[,string,...]] [layer=integer] column=string labels=string [xoffset=float] [yoffset=float] [reference=string] [font=string] [size=float] [color=string] [width=float] [hcolor=string] [hwidth=float] [background=string] [border=string] [opaque=string] [space=float]
Flags:
- -a
- Create labels along lines
Parameters:
- map=string
- Name of input vector
- type=string[,string,...]
- Type
- Options: point,line,boundary,centroid
- Default: point,line,boundary,centroid
- layer=integer
- Layer number
- Default: 1
- column=string
- Name of attribute column to be used for labels
- labels=string
- Name of a paint-label file
- xoffset=float
- Offset label in x-direction
- Default: 0
- yoffset=float
- Offset label in y-direction
- Default: 0
- reference=string
- Reference position
- Options: center,left,right,upper,lower
- Default: center
- font=string
- Font
- Default: standard
- size=float
- Label size (in map-units)
- Default: 100
- color=string
- Text color
- Options: aqua,black,blue,brown,cyan,gray,green,grey,indigo,magenta, orange,purple,red,violet,white,yellow
- Default: black
- width=float
- Border width (only for ps.map output)
- Default: 1
- hcolor=string
- Highlight color for text (only for ps.map output)
- Options: none,aqua,black,blue,brown,cyan,gray,green,grey,indigo,magenta, orange,purple,red,violet,white,yellow
- Default: none
- hwidth=float
- Line width of highlight color (only for ps.map output)
- Default: 0
- background=string
- Background color
- Options: none,aqua,black,blue,brown,cyan,gray,green,grey,indigo,magenta, orange,purple,red,violet,white,yellow
- Default: none
- border=string
- Border color
- Options: none,aqua,black,blue,brown,cyan,gray,green,grey,indigo,magenta, orange,purple,red,violet,white,yellow
- Default: none
- opaque=string
- Opaque to vector (only relevant if background color is selected)
- Options: yes,no
- Default: yes
- space=float
- Space between letters (in map-units)
- Default: 100
DESCRIPTION
v.label makes a label-file from a GRASS vector file
and labels loaded from attached attribute table.
NOTE
Rotated labels produced by this module are supported by ps.map only.
AUTHOR
Philip Verhagen (original s.label)
Radim Blazek
Last changed: $Date: 2003/08/13 09:23:31 $
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