[OSM-newbies] Text rendering ...

[Robert Helvie]

>
> It's just the way the map style sheet has been written. The cities are
> set to never wrap. For towns the name will wrap if the caption gets
> larger than 20 pixels.
> I don't know the reason behind this styling.
>
> You can see the stylesheet here if you want:
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/mapnik/osm.xml
> search for the [place] = 'city' part. The wrap_width variable controls
> whether multiple lines are used.
>
> There's no way to actually force a line break though.
>
> Dave
>

Interesting.

OK, thanks for the info. Just thought I'd ask, being a newbie and all.

Let me hijack this reply for one more question, please.

Is there a way to contact a user who doesn't seem to have a "User:"
page? Other than just throwing their user name out here.

Thanks again.

Robert

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