you may label with multiple attributes (columns) and expressions by clicking "expression" in the set of choices to label with. The Asset wizard will pop up. Use the concatenation keyword symbol + to label with more than one column, expression or text string- and don't forget to insert blank spaces as " " and punctuation can go in as +",". You may use Chr$(13)to force a new line in the label for all that follows it. For example from a hypothetical table of States' for my Michigan, the expression "The State of "+ Name + Chr$(13)+ "Home of the "+ State_Bird + Chr$(13)+Population /Area(obj,Acre)+" People per Acre" would look like
The State of Michigan Home of the Robin .52 People Per Acre The allow duplicate text option relates to the text string in one column. So if you have one road with 12 separate polylines, each segment attributed "Main St" in the Road_Name column will be labeled when allow duplicate text is check, if its not checked only one segment gets the label. Another thing the program does is each object in one layer is allowed one label. When the Label box is checked in layer control, the label is automatically placed at the line or regions centroid. If you use the label tool, it will display where ever you click on the region or line. If the arrow box is checked in label dialog, then the arrow is anchored on the centroid and the text displays where ever you click with the label tool, or manually move the label to. TIP - You can query out subsets of the table and place each of those into layer control and label each query differently. You may also add the same table multiple times and label each one separately / differently. Play around with zoom layering in label and display and adding the same table back in to give more/different detail at closer views. Draw back- redraw time increases. If you have 2 regions over each other, the one in the uppermost layer will grab the label, but you can cycle through the objects over each other with the Alt key. If both regions are in the same table, the one drawn first gets the label, and you cant fiddle with the draw order. Im not sure what you are applying this to, but your example shows a bad practice, you would not have the state of NY , The county of ?what_ever_that_is?, the City of NY and the burrows of NYC all in the same layer. And when a layer is not homogeneous, labeling problems often show up. Ideally, you would not have one region over another in one table, unless it was archival and there was a field to query on that drew out the current data. I am suspicious that you may need to split the data into more distinct tables. William "Woody" Woodruff Zoning Administrator Charter Township of Union, Isabella County, Michigan -84.80947000 43.61095100 2010 S Lincoln Rd, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 (989) 772 4600 EXT 41 Visit our web site at http://www.geocities.com/ctuzoning/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Phillips, Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 12, 2004 12:30 To: 'MapInfo-L' Subject: MI-L "Allow Duplicate Text" is not working Hi, all. I have a set of regions, some of them non-contiguous, and I want to label each distinct piece of each region with its name. For example, if this were States, then New York would have several "pieces" (Long Island, Manhattan, NY state, etc) in one region record. What if I want to show the label "New York" on the big part, on Long Island, on Manhattan, etc? Wouldn't I just check the "Allow Duplicate Text" box in the label properties of the layer? I've done that, but it still allows me ONLY one single text label... Am I doing something wrong, or is this "Allow Duplicate Text" not really what I think it is? Frank Phillips Manager of Marketing GIS Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC) Birmingham, AL, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 9835 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 9854
