Add some more notes on placement, based on previous confusions.

gravitystorm 2012-10-17 11:18:32 -07:00
parent 9b34a6a1ae
commit dd28826aef

@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ ShieldSymbolizer supports all options of [[TextSymbolizer]] and the following ad
dx, dy (from TextSymbolizer) only move the text, but not the Shield. This behavior will be changed in a future release of mapnik. (See below).
### placement
`placement="line"` actually means points along a line for ShieldSymbolizer.
`placement="line"` only means placement along a line for ShieldSymbolizer, whereas for TextSymbolizer it rotates the text too. Add the `spacing` parameter to get the ShieldSymbolizer to repeat along the line, otherwise `placement="line"` and `placement="point"` will look the same.
### base
Add