Ubuntu Manpage: d.text - Draws text in the active display frame on the graphics monitor using the current

NAME

       d.text  - Draws text in the active display frame on the graphics monitor using the current
       font.

KEYWORDS

       display, cartography

SYNOPSIS

       d.text
       d.text help
       d.text  [-mpgbrsc]   [text=string]    [size=float]     [color=string]     [bgcolor=string]
       [line=integer]     [at=x,y]     [align=string]     [rotation=float]    [linespacing=float]
       [font=string]   [path=string]   [charset=string]   [--verbose]  [--quiet]

   Flags:
       -m
           Use mouse to interactively place text

       -p
           Screen position in pixels ([0,0] is top left)

       -g
           Screen position in geographic coordinates

       -b
           Use bold text

       -r
           Use radians instead of degrees for rotation

       -s
           Font size is height in pixels

       -c
           Ignored (compatibility with d.text.freetype)

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

   Parameters:
       text=string
           Text to display

       size=float
           Height of letters in percentage of available frame height
           Options: 0-100
           Default: 5

       color=string
           Text color, either a standard GRASS color or R:G:B triplet
           Default: gray

       bgcolor=string
           Text background color, either a standard GRASS color or R:G:B triplet

       line=integer
           The screen line number on which text will begin to be drawn
           Options: 1-1000

       at=x,y
           Screen position at which text will begin to be drawn (percentage, [0,0] is lower left)

       align=string
           Text alignment
           Options: ll,lc,lr,cl,cc,cr,ul,uc,ur
           Default: ll

       rotation=float
           Rotation angle in degrees (counter-clockwise)
           Default: 0

       linespacing=float
           Line spacing
           Default: 1.25

       font=string
           Font name

       path=string
           Path to font file

       charset=string
           Text encoding (only applicable to TrueType fonts)

DESCRIPTION

d.text draws text in the active display frame on the graphics monitor. Text can be
provided through standard input or redirected from a file (using the UNIX redirection
mechanism). In addition to the options provided on the command line, colors, text size,
font type, rotation angle, and boldness can be adjusted with commands in the standard
input (i.e., if the user invokes d.text without options on the command line, and then
assigns values to these options on lines within the standard input).

Commands:
.C color
(where color is one of the available colors) causes text appearing on subsequent
lines to be drawn in that color.

.G color
(where color is one of the available colors) causes the background of text
appearing on subsequent lines to be drawn in that color.

.S size
(where size is a percentage within the range 0 to 100) adjusts text size. Note
that a size of 10 would allow 10 lines to be drawn in the active display frame, 5
would allow the drawing of 20 lines, and 50 would allow the drawing of 2 lines.

.F font
(where font is one of the fonts known by the GRASS program d.font) manipulates the
font type. Available fonts are listed in the GRASS manual entry for d.font. The
default font type used (if unspecified by the user) is romans.

.R rotation
(where rotation is an angle in degrees, counter-clockwise) to rotate the text.

.B 1
stipulates that following text be printed in bold. This command means bold on.

.B 0
turns bold off of all text appearing on lines beneath it. (Bold off is used by
default, if unspecified by the user.)

EXAMPLE

       The following command will print the short phrase "This is a test of d.text" in the active
       display  frame  using  the  color  yellow, in bold, and using 4/100'ths (4%) of the active
       frame's vertical space per line:

       d.text << EOF
       .br 1
       This is a test of d.text
       EOF
        The user presses control-d (the "Ctrl" and "d" keys) to end input  to  d.text  (equal  to
       EOF).

NOTES

       Note  that  the GRASS command d.title creates map TITLEs in a format suitable for input to
       d.text.

       d.text needs escape sequences that can be used within lines to  change  colors,  boldness,
       and perhaps size.

AUTHOR

       James Westervelt, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

       Updates by Huidae Cho

       Last changed: $Date: 2011-11-08 03:29:50 -0800 (Tue, 08 Nov 2011) $

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