Line-end geometry?

[Jeff Dege]

The line geometry is significant.  Think houses and telephone poles.
The data set has short line segments indicating which houses lines
connect to which poles.  They aren't connected to either the house or
the pole, they cover about the middle third of the distance.  But the
alignment is critical.

The users are used to these being drawn with an arrowhead on one end.
The customer would like them to be drawn such, if it is possible.

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> 
> Is the line geometry significant, or are you really just drawing
> line-arrow symbols at point locations?  
> 
> If it is the latter case, you could create a point shapefile and then
> label the points with an existing (or one that you create) 
> TrueType font
> character that is a line with an arrow tip.  Use 
> LABELANGLEITEM to point
> the arrow in the right direction.  
> 
> David.
> 
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> 
> 
> I have a layer with line data.
> 
> I want to draw the lines with arrow-heads at one end.
> 
> The data represents short line segments that point at certain 
> locations
> - my customer wants them to draw like little arrows.
> 
> What's the easiest way of doing this?  (Recognizing that I 
> can't modify
> the underlying data.)
>