topic Multi-line annotation with line feed in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/multi-line-annotation-with-line-feed/m-p/584717#M33035 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I ran into an interesting situation when working with multiline annotations that have a baseline vertical alignment/justificaiton.&nbsp; These were annotations that we migrated from a different system.&nbsp; So the text for the annotation was brought in as it was in the old system which was unix-based and used just a line feed as the newline character.&nbsp; The annotation correctly displayed as multiple lines.&nbsp; But, the vertical alignment was only affecting the first line of the annotation.&nbsp; I was expecting that the baseline alignment would mean the point of the annotation would be along the bottom of the last line.&nbsp; But it was along the bottom of the first line.&nbsp; After some investigation, I found that it was the line feed character that appears to cause this.&nbsp; If I would edit the text by deleting the newline and placing a new one in the editor, then it would correctly align the entire annotation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Not sure if this is a bug or the intended behavior.&nbsp; You can't put a line feed in the annotation by using the normal editor.&nbsp; It always uses CR+LF.&nbsp; Which makes sense being a Windows-based system.&nbsp; But I was able to replicate this by using the field calculator and the VbLF character.&nbsp; You can see the results of this in the two screenshots below.&nbsp; The first shows the annotation when updated using the editor.&nbsp; The second shows the annotation when updated using the field calculator to force the line feed.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[ATTACH=CONFIG]32587[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]32588[/ATTACH]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It would appear ArcMap interprets the line feed as a newline from a display standpoint but not from an alignment standpoint.&nbsp; And the other interesting thing is that if you edit the symbology of the annotation, the preview always shows the text aligned from the first line.&nbsp; Even when the annotation uses the correct CR+LF newline.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[ATTACH=CONFIG]32591[/ATTACH]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I wasn't able to find any discussion of this issue so I thought I would share in case anyone else ran into this in the future.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:37:38 GMT BillyBuerger 2014-03-28T12:37:38Z Multi-line annotation with line feed https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/multi-line-annotation-with-line-feed/m-p/584717#M33035 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I ran into an interesting situation when working with multiline annotations that have a baseline vertical alignment/justificaiton.&nbsp; These were annotations that we migrated from a different system.&nbsp; So the text for the annotation was brought in as it was in the old system which was unix-based and used just a line feed as the newline character.&nbsp; The annotation correctly displayed as multiple lines.&nbsp; But, the vertical alignment was only affecting the first line of the annotation.&nbsp; I was expecting that the baseline alignment would mean the point of the annotation would be along the bottom of the last line.&nbsp; But it was along the bottom of the first line.&nbsp; After some investigation, I found that it was the line feed character that appears to cause this.&nbsp; If I would edit the text by deleting the newline and placing a new one in the editor, then it would correctly align the entire annotation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Not sure if this is a bug or the intended behavior.&nbsp; You can't put a line feed in the annotation by using the normal editor.&nbsp; It always uses CR+LF.&nbsp; Which makes sense being a Windows-based system.&nbsp; But I was able to replicate this by using the field calculator and the VbLF character.&nbsp; You can see the results of this in the two screenshots below.&nbsp; The first shows the annotation when updated using the editor.&nbsp; The second shows the annotation when updated using the field calculator to force the line feed.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[ATTACH=CONFIG]32587[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]32588[/ATTACH]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It would appear ArcMap interprets the line feed as a newline from a display standpoint but not from an alignment standpoint.&nbsp; And the other interesting thing is that if you edit the symbology of the annotation, the preview always shows the text aligned from the first line.&nbsp; Even when the annotation uses the correct CR+LF newline.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[ATTACH=CONFIG]32591[/ATTACH]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I wasn't able to find any discussion of this issue so I thought I would share in case anyone else ran into this in the future.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:37:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/multi-line-annotation-with-line-feed/m-p/584717#M33035 BillyBuerger 2014-03-28T12:37:38Z