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2 — Quick Start
8. Text
Text tracks are a special 2-dimensional data track, which associates a text label with a genomic position.
Like with other tracks, text is limited to a radial range by setting r0 and r1
<plot> type = text file = data/6/genes.labels.txt r1 = 0.8r r0 = 0.6r ... </plot>
You must set the font for the track, as well as the size of the labels. You can put in optional padding and rpadding to give the text margins.
label_font = light label_size = 12p rpadding = 5p
text track rules
Rules for text tracks work in the same way as for all other track types.
In this example, I test the text label, via var(value), with a regular expression to make labels that contain "a" bold and those that contain "b" blue. I combine the rules by using flow=continue for the first rule. This way, a label can be both bold and blue.
<rules> <rule> condition = var(value) =~ /a/i label_font = bold flow = continue </rule> <rule> condition = var(value) =~ /b/i color = blue </rule> </rules>