When I add a leader, arrow pointing left is aligned top line of text and text drops downward when I hit return. This is good.
When I point to the right the leader underlines the bottom line of text and then every hit of enter pushes the text upwards… This is not good
How do I make both directions the same?
How do I annotate without having to hit enter to drop the text down? I.e. use the boundaries of the text box to control the text width rather than hitting enter to manually control the width of the text box?
that’s a crazy assumption too. Is that correct? And if so, why? What logic could possibly result in that formulation? I can understand both on top. I can understand both on bottom. Shoot, I can understand two on top and two on bottom. But how do we get to an attachment node on left top and bottom right? Mysterious logic for me.
I think it is a standard to have multi-line leaders justified that way… at least I remember a CAD tech teaching me something like that a long time ago… but agreed there should be more flexibility…
If you’re pointing the arrow to the right, you could justify the text to the right side to eliminate the long leader (you may know that, just posting for anyone else who finds the thread).
You can create a label with some default text and then edit the leader as you wish – then save it to a scrapbook.
I’ve done something similar.
But be aware that there could be some minor unpredictable behaviour – when I’ve pushed the limits of editing leaders the resulting label can throw a wobbly if you start to move it about.
Just via scrapbooks. Save a left-pointing leader/label and a right-pointing leader/label and sample it before you draw your leader/label.
The “rule” my first drafting mentor taught me was when the leader is pointing right, the leader should come off the last word in the text string (bottom right for multi-line text). When the leader is pointing left, the leader should come off the first word in the text string (top left for multi-line text). Since Layout defaults quite inflexibly to that rule, I just go with it.
@russ1669 I’m mostly wondering how you were able to respond to an 18 month old discussion. I thought the thread was closed after 90 days
You can double click the leader, adjust the position to the top and right justify the text. Then use copy style/ paste style to update the rest of your labels. I would save it to your scrapbook for future reference. We have it on a filler page in our standard template that is deleted before we publish. Hope that helps!
It was just an example. I placed the leaders manually. I could have made a scrapbook of them but for my work it’s trivial to move the leaders when I need to so not worth a scrapbook file.
