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    <p>I tried almost the same thing and received a 0 also - so I
      thought I was doing it wrong. Yippee for repeatable discoveries
      that may or may not be an error.   <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/2016 10:42 AM, Carlos Cerdán
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        <p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">Hi Randal:</p>
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        The label expression:<br>
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        [% '1 inch to ' || (to_int( $scale )/12) || ' Feet'%]<br>
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        must work... but I got "1 inch to 0 Feet".  $scale help says:
        "This function is only available in some contexts and will be 0
        otherwise". .... Which contexts?<br>
        <br>
        Developers, please light us.
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        <p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">Carlos Cerdán<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-12 8:52 GMT-05:00 Randal Hale <span
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              href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com"
              target="_blank">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a>></span>:<br>
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              <p>I've had this question come up several times and I've
                done some digging but can't find an answer. <br>
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              <p>In map composer I can set my scale (Feet) to 1:7920
                which is 1 inch to 660 Feet. <br>
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              <ul>
                <li>I can display a scale bar.</li>
                <li>I can display scale text (1:7920)<br>
                </li>
              </ul>
              <p>Can I display  "1 inch to 660 Feet"  through use of an
                expression? I've been manually typing it in and
                sometimes I'll change map scale and forget to change the
                typed scale. <br>
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              <p>Randy<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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