Hello all,

Thank you very much for all your responses on how to
stack labels....they helped out immensely.  I've
listed them below, but I do have another question
regarding labeling in AV8.1 (or 3.2):

Does anyone know how to dynamically label a polygon
theme so that graphics associated with attribute data
are displayed within each polygon?  (sort of like a
legend in each polygon for the data of each individual
polygon)....for example, a red circle accompanied by
attribute data, etc.

I appreciate any responses and I will sum.

Erik Sommargren

SUM:

Not exactly what you're looking for -- but here's what
I do in
ArcView3.x.  Bring the line theme into the View twice
-- use Theme
properties to define the labeling properties of each
(for instance
RdName above the line, RdNumber below the line) and
proceed to label
(twice).  For AV3.x of course there is the "stacked
label" extension,
which is probably what you want to recreate in AB for
Arc8.  Good luck.
Kathi Hannaford, Union Co. GIS
khannaford@unionco.org


Open layer properties, go to the label tab. Click on
expression and
type the
following "field name" & vbNewLine & "field name 2"
This will stack one
label on top of another (field name obviously is the
name of the field
(s)
you want to use to label your data.
Enrique Fernandez
GIS/IS Manager
Lynx Enterprises, Inc.


To stack multiple labels for the same feature on top
of each other try
this
in the expression property.
[field name 1] & vbNewLine & [field name 2]
With field names 1 and 2 reffering to the whatever the
attributes are
that
you to label.
Hope this helps.
Joe Plattner
City Of Mercer Island


[Address] & vbNewLine&  [Last_date] & vbNewLine& "West
Bound = " &
[WestBound]
This code will display as
123 ANY ST
10/15/2001
Westbound = 12345
The items in [] are column names, the vbNewLine& makes
a new line, and
The item in quotes gets typed to the label.  If you
don't want a new line use
code such as [Address] & " " &[Last_date]
Jill Wolf
GIS Specialist
City of Northglenn

Stacked is easy.  The magic word is "vbNewLine".  In
the label field
expression box, enter:
    [FIELD1] & vbNewLine & [FIELD2]
Placed on either side of the line is harder.  You
could try setting the
placement to "Centered on line" (with the label
stacked as above) but
that doesn't seem very accurate - I had to adjust the
position of the
label manually.
Hope this helps,
-- David Stinchcomb




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