Text Questions - Cranial Flatulance

[Anonymous]

All, I remember a rather basic command for inserting text into an object such that there was whitespace around the text without breaking the object. Along the lines of the elevation text on topo contours. The text is on the line and it appears that the pline contour is broken, but in reality it's not. Please help me recover from this brain fart! Tom

[Anonymous]

"Thomas Homan" wrote in message news:41794069_3@newsprd01... > All, > > I remember a rather basic command for inserting text into an object such > that there was whitespace around the text without breaking the object. > > Along the lines of the elevation text on topo contours. The text is on the > line and it appears that the pline contour is broken, but in reality it's > not. > > Please help me recover from this brain fart! I don't recommend it, but TEXTMASK, within Express Tools, does that.

[Anonymous]

MTEXT in 2005 has a background option. You might want to take a peek at that. -- I support two teams: the Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees. "TomD" wrote in message news:41794b46$1_2@newsprd01... | "Thomas Homan" wrote in message | news:41794069_3@newsprd01... | > All, | > | > I remember a rather basic command for inserting text into an object such | > that there was whitespace around the text without breaking the object. | > | > Along the lines of the elevation text on topo contours. The text is on the | > line and it appears that the pline contour is broken, but in reality it's | > not. | > | > Please help me recover from this brain fart! | | I don't recommend it, but TEXTMASK, within Express Tools, does that. | |

[Anonymous]

Thank you both. That did what I needed. Tom "Matt W" wrote in message news:41794ded_1@newsprd01... > MTEXT in 2005 has a background option. You might want to take a peek at > that. > > -- > I support two teams: the Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees. > > > "TomD" wrote in message > news:41794b46$1_2@newsprd01... > | "Thomas Homan" wrote in message > | news:41794069_3@newsprd01... > | > All, > | > > | > I remember a rather basic command for inserting text into an object such > | > that there was whitespace around the text without breaking the object. > | > > | > Along the lines of the elevation text on topo contours. The text is on > the > | > line and it appears that the pline contour is broken, but in reality > it's > | > not. > | > > | > Please help me recover from this brain fart! > | > | I don't recommend it, but TEXTMASK, within Express Tools, does that. > | > | > >