Lisp for Adding/Subtracting Elevations in MText

We use Mulitline text to show our proposed elevations, such as

10.50 TC
10.00 AC

We need to lower all of our grades 0.10'. Is there a lisp that will lower
the elevations and still keep the text at the end of the elevation. The
final product should look like this, and keep the existing justification.

10.40 TC
9.50 AC

Thanks.

 

I've got an EDITNUM routine for text and attributes that does just that, but I
haven't spruced it up for Mtext because of all the possible formatting issues
that can easily cause weird results. Okay, so I made up the UNFORMAT function
for Steve Doman's SripMtext, but that was meant for removing formatting, not
changing interpreted values contained therein.

Imagine an apparently simple Mtext object that appears to read "10.00 TC" and
then extract it's TextString value to find it might look like
"{\\fVerdana|b0|i0|c0|p34;\\C1;10.\\C2;00\\fUnivers|b0|i0|c0|p34;\\H0.6667x;\\C3
; TC}"

AAUUUGGHHH! Maybe someone has a freeware widget that can deal with this, and
bless them if they do. I don't just yet. Now I could plug in the UNFORMAT
function and deal with Mtext by forcing the formatting removal, but I don't know
if people would want to lose formatting.

 

Hi Todd,

Our GeoTools program has a tool called GT_MODTXT (globally modify
text/mtext) that does just this. In addition to many other options and
capabilities, it can also globally increment or decrement text or
multi-line mtext, which is what you want.

You can download a fully functional evaluation download at thsi URL:

www.4d-technologies.com/geotools/

You may also want to take a look at our MyGeoTools page for more info
and options:

www.4d-technologies.com.geotools/my_geotyools.htm,

Regards
Rakesh

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