[Xastir] Tiger Data map labels ?

William McKeehan mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net
Tue May 17 11:22:07 EDT 2005


I made the change from o to r and it made a real difference! I may play with
other fonts, but this is much more readable compared to what it was before.

Thanks!

On Tue, May 17, 2005 11:09 am, Jason Winningham said:
> Here's a typical X font identifier, as found in map -> configure -> map
> labels font:
>
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
>
> The part you care most about are the -r- and the -10-.  The r is for
> "regular" text, as opposed to o for "oblique", aka italics.  the only
> thing worse than a rotated label is a rotated label in italics.  The
> "o" was a default at one time, and if your xastir config file is old
> enough you may still have an "o".  If so, change it to r.

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