d.title - GRASS GIS manual
Author: GRASS Development Team
Description: d.title: Create a TITLE for a raster map in a form suitable for display with d.text.
Keywords: display, cartography

## NAME

d.title - Create a TITLE for a raster map in a form suitable for display with d.text.

## KEYWORDS

display, cartography

## SYNOPSIS

d.title
d.title --help
d.title [-dfs] map=name [color=string] [size=float] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

### Flags:

-d
  Draw title on current display
-f
  Do a fancier title
-s
  Do a simple title
--help
  Print usage summary
--verbose
  Verbose module output
--quiet
  Quiet module output
--ui
  Force launching GUI dialog

### Parameters:

map=name [required]
  Name of raster map
color=string
  Sets the text color
  Default: black
size=float
  Sets the text size as percentage of the frame's height
  Options: 0-100
  Default: 4.0

## 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. If the -d draw flag is used, then d.title will call d.text for you and the title will be automatically rendered to the display.

## 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.

## EXAMPLES

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.

## SEE ALSO

d.font, d.text

## AUTHOR

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

## SOURCE CODE

Available at: d.title source code (history)

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