Re: space label code has been integrated

[Jason Bell <bellj@graphics.lcs.mit.edu>]

good questions.  I'm investigating the exact meanings of the xyz coordinate
information.

for callouts:  acad2ug is very complex.  if extending it to handle callouts
is too difficult, it might be a good idea to rewrite it using either perl
or lex/yacc.  Doing parsing and state machine-ey stuff the way it currently
does makes it hard to extend.

-JMB

Seth Teller wrote:

> neat.  comments follow.
>
> Jason Bell wrote:
> >
> > Group,
> >
> > Allen Miu's space label code has been integrated into acad2ug.
> > Currently, it spits label information into a *.label file in an
> > obvious format.
>
> where is the actual format documented?  can any number
> of label strings be included, or only two per line as
> in the example below?  what is the "meaning" of the
> xyz coordinate -- is it the lower left of the text
> box?  the centroid?  what about cases in which labels
> are accompanied (in DXF) by line segments indicating
> the label target?  i'm concerned that some info may
> be lost here.