When you print text on a report that must appear at a specific depth or depth range, sometimes there is more text than will fit in that space. To accommodate the remaining text, yet still mark the appropriate depth for the next section and its text, gINT Software allows the report to specify callout lines. These are lines drawn below the text to a specific horizontal position on the report.
Callout lines can also be drawn from some text to a specific horizontal position on a Log or Fence report at the depth of the text entity, to add a label at that depth.
In the report page shown, the last layer has enough space to display one line of description in the Material Description column above the bottom-of-hole line, but there are two lines of description in the data:
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The callout line marks the correct depth for the bottom of the hole on both left and right, but then drops at a specified angle to provide space for the rest of the description. Subsequent text (in this case, “Bottom of borehole at 45 feet”) is also moved down with the callout line.
This pushed-down text is the entity for which the callout lines reference the depth.
Callouts are also used to point to the depth associated with text as a label. We can see this in the Well Diagrams column above. Callout lines with pointers can exhibit the same “make room” behavior we saw for the Material Description, as with the “Cave-In” label at the bottom of the hole for the Well Diagrams column:
In this instance, it is easier to see which text entity the callout line connects to its depth; it is the “Cave-In” label.