Update the "Cartographic Symbol Construction with MapServer" document to version 6

[havatv]

The "Cartographic Symbol Construction with MapServer" document has to be updated to describe Mapserver version 6 functionality.

[dmorissette]

See also

• #3798: CARTOLINE removed
• #3793, GAP, PATTERN, LINECAP/JOIN and POSITION removed from symbolObj

[dmorissette]

Correction:

• #3798: CARTOLINE removed
• #3797, GAP, PATTERN, LINECAP/JOIN and POSITION removed from symbolObj

[havatv]

The first version of the revised document (with some new illustrations) has now been uploaded. I have changed the structure of the document a bit, and provided some other examples. There will be further work on this, but I close this ticket as fixed now.

[tbonfort]

Great work Havard, many thanks for having taken this task.

[havatv]

The document is very crude, and has not been properly proof read. I know that there are many errors and omissions. I felt that I had to commit something to get things out for the version 6 release.

I will have to fix a lot of things. It would be good to correct the worst mistakes as soon as possible. Is it possible to update the documentation that is on mapserver.org independent of releases (before 6.0.1)?

[dmorissette]

Yes, the live website version is taken from SVN branch-6-0, and fixes or 6.0-specific additions are welcome in that branch.

The SVN trunk version has now become 6.1-dev (future 6.2), so this means that all fixes to the 6.0 branch should also be applied to trunk to make sure they make it in 6.2.

Things should remain this way until the 6.2 release, i.e. there should be no more tagging or branching of the docs until the 6.2 release.