 
NAME
d.northarrow  - Displays a north arrow on the graphics monitor.
KEYWORDS
display, 
cartography, 
map annotations, 
arrow
SYNOPSIS
d.northarrow
d.northarrow --help
d.northarrow [-twr]  [style=string]   [at=x,y]   [rotation=float]   [label=string]   [color=name]   [fill_color=name]   [text_color=name]   [width=float]   [font=string]   [fontsize=float]   [path=name]   [charset=string]   [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui] 
Flags:
- -t
- Draw the symbol without text
- -w
- Do not rotate text with symbol
- -r
- Use radians instead of degrees for rotation
- --help
- Print usage summary
- --verbose
- Verbose module output
- --quiet
- Quiet module output
- --ui
- Force launching GUI dialog
 
Parameters:
- style=string
- North arrow style
- Options: 1a, 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9, fancy_compass, basic_compass, arrow1, arrow2, arrow3, star
- Default: 1a
 1a: Two color arrowhead 1a: Two color arrowhead
 1b: Two color arrowhead with circle 1b: Two color arrowhead with circle
 2: Narrow with blending N 2: Narrow with blending N
 3: Long with small arrowhead 3: Long with small arrowhead
 4: Inverted narrow inside a circle 4: Inverted narrow inside a circle
 5: Triangle and N inside a circle 5: Triangle and N inside a circle
 6: Arrowhead and N inside a circle 6: Arrowhead and N inside a circle
 7a: Tall half convex arrowhead 7a: Tall half convex arrowhead
 7b: Tall half concave arrowhead 7b: Tall half concave arrowhead
 8a: Thin arrow in a circle 8a: Thin arrow in a circle
 8b: Fat arrow in a circle 8b: Fat arrow in a circle
 9: One color arrowhead 9: One color arrowhead
 fancy_compass: Fancy compass fancy_compass: Fancy compass
 basic_compass: Basic compass basic_compass: Basic compass
 arrow1: Simple arrow arrow1: Simple arrow
 arrow2: Thin arrow arrow2: Thin arrow
 arrow3: Fat arrow arrow3: Fat arrow
 star: 4-point star star: 4-point star
- at=x,y
- Screen coordinates of the rectangle's top-left corner
- (0,0) is lower-left of the display frame
- Options: 0-100
- Default: 85.0,15.0
- rotation=float
- Rotation angle in degrees (counter-clockwise)
- Default: 0
- label=string
- Displayed letter on the top of arrow
- Default: N
- color=name
- Line color
- Either a standard color name, R:G:B triplet, or "none"
- Default: black
- fill_color=name
- Fill color
- Either a standard color name, R:G:B triplet, or "none"
- Default: black
- text_color=name
- Text color
- Either a standard color name or R:G:B triplet
- width=float
- Line width
- Default: 0
- font=string
- Font name
- fontsize=float
- Font size
- Options: 1-360
- Default: 14
- path=name
- Path to font file
- charset=string
- Text encoding (only applicable to TrueType fonts)
 
d.northarrow displays a north arrow symbol at
the given screen coordinates. If no coordinates are given it will draw the
north arrow in the bottom right of the display. It can draw the north arrow
in a number of styles (see the
 
wiki
page for details).
With certain styles of north arrow label 'N' is displayed by default,
and can be changed with option 
label, for example for different languages.
The label can be hidden with 
-t flag.
North arrow can be rotated, for example to align with true north, not grid north.
The angle in degrees counter-clockwise (or radians with -r flag)
can be specified with option rotation. Label is rotated together with the
arrow, unless flag -w is specified.
Display a north arrow symbol as a basic compas with label NORTH,
rotated by 8 degrees with label, with black line and gray fill:
d.mon wx0
d.northarrow style=basic_compas rotation=8 label=NORTH -w color=black fill_color=gray
d.mon -r
Hamish Bowman, 
Department of Geology, University of Otago, New Zealand
Improvements as part of GSoC 2016 by Adam Laza, 
CTU in Prague
SOURCE CODE
  Available at:
  d.northarrow source code
  (history)
  Latest change: Thursday Dec 22 10:46:08 2022 in commit: 8de925f87be22a5c943f2969a2872a288d72f2f7
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