Formatting Text for Feature Labelling

Mel VanderWal vanderwalm at peligroso.gaiaenv.com
Thu Jul 6 14:01:33 EDT 2000


Sean;

If you do end up having to edit the dbf, the easy way is to use ArcView's Field
Calculator, and type in: [YourField].Proper, which will capitalize the first
letter of all words.

Regards,
Mel

Sean O'Hagan wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> Has anyone messed around with the appropriate Mapserver code to allow
> first-letter capitalization for feature labelling? I thought about updating
> the DBF file, but if it's been done within Mapserver already I'd rather take
> advantage of that.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean O'Hagan
>
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