advanced labelings

[Fawcett, David]

Take a look at the mapfile documentation for LABEL:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/label
 
WRAP
 
You can identify a charater that will tell MapServer to WRAP the text.  
 
David.

	-----Original Message-----
	From: UMN MapServer Users List
[mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Todd Fagin
	Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 12:03 PM
	To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
	Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] advanced labelings
	
	

	Greetings all,

	 

	I am wanting to do some advanced labeling in MapServer and have
several questions.

	 

	First, if I want to label based on concatenated fields, but on
two separate lines. I know I can do something such as the following in
my CLASS object:

	 

	TEXT ([QDNAME][INDEX_CODE]) 

	 

	This, of course, will return labels from both the QDNAME and
INDEX_CODE fields, but on a single line.

	 

	However, I would like to stake the labels on two lines, e.g.

	 

	QDNAME 

	INDEX_CODE

	 

	Any suggestions on how to do this?

	 

	Secondly, I would like to be able to label based on a truncated
field.  For instance, I would like to have as my label field the first 5
characters of a string, e.g., 

	 

	LEFT([QDNAME], 5)

	 

	Is there a way to do something along these lines without
creating a new field in my layer that only contains these characters?

	 

	Ultimately, my goal is to be able to stack a single label field
into two lines.  So, if my attribute value is 1000-5142, I would like my
label to look like:

	 

	1000-

	5142.

	 

	Any suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated.  I
have yet to find anything in the archives that would assist me in this
matter.

	 

	Thanks in advance.

	 

	Todd Fagin

	 

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