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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  [-pgbrs]    [text=string]     [size=float]     [color=string]     [bgcolor=string]
       [line=integer]     [at=x,y]     [align=string]     [rotation=float]    [linespacing=float]
       [font=string]    [path=name]    [charset=string]    [input=name]    [--help]   [--verbose]
       [--quiet]  [--ui]

   Flags:
       -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

       --help
           Print usage summary

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

       --ui
           Force launching GUI dialog

   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=name
           Path to font file

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

       input=name
           Input file

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
       .C yellow
       .G grey
       .S 4
       .B 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.

SEE ALSO

       d.font
       d.title
       d.labels

AUTHOR

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

       Updates by Huidae Cho

       Last changed: $Date: 2014-12-12 00:16:30 +0100 (Fri, 12 Dec 2014) $

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