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## Mapnik2
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`mess.js` is only compatible with [Mapnik2](http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/Mapnik2). Compatibility with Mapnik 0.7.x is not planned.
## Rasters and Buildings
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Rasters are supported in mess.js - it knows how to download `.vrt`, `.tiff`, and soon other raster formats, and the properties of the [RasterSymbolizer](http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/RasterSymbolizer) are exposed in the language.
The [BuildingSymbolizer](http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/BuildingSymbolizer) is also supported in `mess.js`. The code stores symbolizer types and properties in a JSON file (in `tree/reference.js`), so new Mapnik features can be quickly implemented here.
## Variables & Expressions
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`mess.js` inherits from its basis in [less.js](http://lesscss.org/) some new features in CSS. One can define variables in stylesheets, and use expressions to modify them.
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## FontSets
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By defining multiple fonts in a `text-face-name` definition, you create [FontSets](http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/FontSet) in `mess.js`. These are useful for supporting multiple character sets and fallback fonts for distributed styles.
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<th>mess</th><th>XML</th>
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<pre>#world {
text-name: "[NAME]";
text-size: 11;
text-face-name: "Georgia Regular", "Arial Italic";
}</pre>
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<pre>&lt;FontSet name=&quot;fontset-0&quot;&gt;
&lt;Font face_name=&quot;Georgia Regular&quot;/&gt;
&lt;Font face_name=&quot;Arial Italic&quot;/&gt;
&lt;/FontSet&gt;
&lt;Style name=&quot;world-text&quot;&gt;
&lt;Rule&gt;
&lt;TextSymbolizer fontset_name=&quot;fontset-0&quot;
size=&quot;11&quot;
name=&quot;[NAME]&quot;/&gt;
&lt;/Rule&gt;
&lt;/Style&gt;</pre>
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</table>
## Credits