Word wrapping and hyphenation for (long) labels

[Jenske]

Suppose I want to have a field with 200 character width represented as
a label on a map.
Suppose I want the label to be word-wrapped at, say, 72 characters.

Can Mapinfo 9.5 do this?

If not, is there a (simple?) word-wrapping function I could enter as
an expression for labelling?

[Bill Thoen]

There is no function to do this in MapInfo and I don't think there's a
workaround, short of writing a mapbasic program and displaying your
layer's labels with that.

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[Thomas Bacon]

Hi Jenske,

Something like this should work:

Left$(YOURFIELD, InStr(72, YOURFIELD, " "))+ Chr$(13) + Mid$(YOURFIELD,
InStr(72, YOURFIELD, " ")+1, InStr(144, YOURFIELD, " ")-InStr(72,
YOURFIELD, " ")) + Chr$(13) + Mid$(YOURFIELD, InStr(144, YOURFIELD, "
")+1, 56)

A bit complex maybe for what you're looking for, but it should do the
trick!

HTH,

Tom

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[Jenske]

Thanks for these suggestions.

Thomas, your suggestion is very valuable, and probably the only
option.

Problem is that it is not possible to have a "while ... do ... "- loop
as a function in MI, as this would enable the word-wrapping routine to
be applied to text of any length.

It's a pity, though, that, unlike left$, mid$ etcetera, no similar
function is available in MI to just word-wrap a string to a certain
maximum number of characters. Something like

wordwrap(text, 72)

would be very handy.

Thanks anyway.



On 6 okt, 15:42, "Thomas Bacon" <Thomas.Ba...@mouchel.com> wrote:
> HiJenske,

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