I think LÖVE's drawing commands should have been designed a little differently keeping the text drawing separate from the shape drawing. Like love.graphics.drawText("Hello!", x, y, rotation, angle) and love.graphics.drawImage(image, x, y, ...) to keep them separate from each other. Because it seems to be you can use both draw and drawf for text depending on if you want it rotated and scaled or not. I stumbled onto this accidentally when I gave my text wrong parameters and the wrong draw command, instead of drawing a text box with a fixed width, it drew a rotated, scaled text string. There should have been completely different commands for drawing different things. Because drawf may do text, but draw can also do text which gets confusing.
From the documentation:
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draw( string, x, y ) Draws text on screen.
draw( string, x, y, angle ) Draws rotated text on screen.
draw( string, x, y, angle, s ) Draws rotated/scaled text on screen.
draw( string, x, y, angle, sx, sy ) Draws rotated/scaled text on screen.
draw( sprite, x, y ) Draws an Image or Animation on screen.
draw( sprite, x, y, angle ) Draws a rotated Image or Animation on screen.
draw( sprite, x, y, angle, s ) Draws a rotated/scaled Image or Animation on screen.
draw( sprite, x, y, angle, sx, sy ) Draws a rotated/scaled Image or Animation on screen.
draw( particlesystem, x, y ) Draws a particle system on screen.
drawf( string, x, y, limit ) Draws formatted text on screen, with word wrap.
drawf( string, x, y, limit, align ) Draws formatted text on screen, with word wrap.
draws( image, x, y, cx, cy, w, h ) Draws a subsprite of an Image.
draws( image, x, y, cx, cy, w, h, angle ) Draws a rotated subsprite of an Image.
draws( image, x, y, cx, cy, w, h, angle, s ) Draws a rotated/scaled subsprite of an Image.
draws( image, x, y, cx, cy, w, h, angle, sx, sy ) Draws a rotated/scaled subsprite of an Image.
draws( image, x, y, cx, cy, w, h, angle, sx, sy, ox, oy )
Note draw is used for both text strings AND images. Depending on what you pass to it. And then it can also be used for particles! But you can also use draws for sprites of a different kind, or drawf for text. Now that's just confusing.
*sigh* I remember the good old simple days of
LOCATE 10,10
PRINT "HELLO!"
LINE (0,9)-(50,9), 15
