## DESCRIPTION

d.title generates to standard output a string which can be used by d.text to draw a TITLE for the raster map layer name in the active display frame on the graphics monitor. Output created by d.title can be redirected into a file, or piped directly into d.text to display the map TITLE created by d.title. The map TITLE created will include the map layer's name, TITLE, MAPSET, LOCATION_NAME, geographic region boundary coordinates, and cell resolution.

## EXAMPLE

For example, a user wishing to create a suitable TITLE for the Spearfish, SD soils map layer and to display this TITLE in the active display frame on the graphics monitor might type the following:

  d.title map=soils color=red size=5 > TITLE.file
  d.text < TITLE.file

Alternately, the user might pipe d.title output directly into d.text:

  d.title map=soils color=red size=5 | d.text

A file created by d.title can be displayed with d.text. Information contained in this file takes precedence over the color and size parameters for d.text.

## NOTES

The text created with d.text will not necessarily fit within the active display frame on the graphics monitor; the user should choose a text size appropriate to this frame.

## SEE ALSO

d.font
d.font.freetype
d.text

## AUTHOR

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

Last changed: $Date: 2005/09/19 07:20:20 $