shrug-l: right-to-left text getting me down

[Christine Smith]

Thank you, Yurong...unfortunately, I have many different text strings and 
changing the tables for all of them is not an option. The way I'm doing it 
now is clicking on a text box and changing the Symbol properties while in an 
edit session and unchecking the right-to-left (Hebrew/Arabic) box.  This 
changes the rest of the text boxes in that anno. layer.  Seems like there 
should be a way to automate this process?


>From: "Tan, Yurong" <Yurong.Tan at va.gov>
>To: "Christine Smith" 
><spinningyurt at hotmail.com>,<shrug-l at lists.dep.state.fl.us>
>Subject: RE: shrug-l: right-to-left text getting me down
>Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:15:57 -0500
>
>I think you need to add two or three more columns to the Annotation
>layer table and then do a split on the "textstring" into those columns.
>Recompose the new "textstring" using those three columns.
>
>A more elegant way of doing this is to add a column "MY_ID" first to the
>annotation table and use this MY_ID column to capture the "OBJECTID"
>before exporting the annotation table to a DBF file.  You can do
>whatever you want with the DBF file in EXCEL and then join this DBF file
>with the annotation table using the MY_ID column before calculating the
>new "textstring" using the joined table.
>
>Good luck
>
>Yurong Tan, Ph.D., Program Analyst/GIS
>PSSG - Field Unit of ADUSH for Policy and Planning
>Department of Veterans Affairs
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us
>[mailto:shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Christine
>Smith
>Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:00 AM
>To: shrug-l at lists.dep.state.fl.us
>Subject: shrug-l: right-to-left text getting me down
>
>Hello SHRUG,
>
>I have several annotation layers that somehow wound up with
>right-to-left
>(Hebrew/Arabic) text.  As a result, numbers appear before letters where
>they
>should not.  For example:
>
>"Capacity 4000 cfs" becomes "cfs Capacity 4000" in the maps.
>
>Does anyone know of a quick way to fix these?  The only solution I know
>of
>is to manually uncheck right-to-left in the symbol properties of each
>annotation layer in each .mxd.  This will take too long.
>
>The annotation is saved as its own layer(s), but the problem appears to
>be
>within the .mxd's.  I'm wondering if there is a script or something that
>
>will change them all.
>
>Thank you!
>Christy
>
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