Very valid... Send this one to the Wish List ASAP!
MidNight Mapper
6/2/99
PS - MapInfo crossed $19/share on the 1st. Volume has been light. Someone
is collecting available shares....?
climber wrote:
> Dear fellow MapInfo users,
>
> I have been a MapInfo user since 1996, when I took my first Vector based
> GIS course using MapInfo v 3.03 on a Mac IIci. I am currently a student
> user of Mapinfo Professional 5.0, as well as Vertical Mapper 2.1.1. The
> one major thing which I think needs to be addressed is a spell checker
> for the text boxes in MapInfo. Also the text boxes having a limit of
> 254 characters is far too short for people who wish to keep paragraphs
> of data together on a map. In several instances in the past, when
> working for the government and the private sector, as well as my honours
> thesis in structural geology, I have encountered difficulties in keeping
> textual information in a document style which approximates that found in
> any map which has large volumes of description about the source data,
> it's source, and other attributes of the map.
>
> I hope MapInfo Corp. looks at this issue and addresses it for all of us
> who would find a spell checker and enhanced text box length useful.
> Corel did it with CorelDRAW, I don't see why MapInfo can't do it with
> MapInfo.
>
> The best option may be to add a link to the users word processor (Word,
> Wordperfect, Word Pro), so that all the custom dictionaries that the
> user has set up for his or her specific profession are easily spell
> checked in MapInfo. I don't see this as major a programming challenge
> as creating an entire spell checker and associated dictionary.
>
> Just a thought, anybody agree with me?
>
> Stan
>
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