I have an InRoads Deed stylesheet that outputs a ^ symbol which I need to maintain for use in our other deed writing software which does not recognize the degree symbol. We are converting the style sheet to OpenRoads and the current output in OpenRoads is a degree symbol and I cannot figure out how to change it and hard code it as a carrot symbol (^) as the output. Can anyone help with this?
Thank you.
Hi Corey,
That isn't currently possible because the degree symbol is hard coded. I made an enhancement request for this, and its log information can be found below. The current workaround should be to Find/Replace after generating the report.
Enhancement 1087661:[Style Sheets] Carrot vs Degree symbols
Regards,
Jacob
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Answer Verified By: Corey Baird
Thank you Jacob.
This used to be possible in V8i products. It was accomplished with a Java Script function and there was some type of guidance written and made available through these communities.
Is that information and approach no longer valid? I have not spent a lot of time working with ORD Style Sheets, but have created and modified dozens in all the versions of InRoads since XSL Style Sheets became the main reporting tool for the Civil Products.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
We have an InRoads style sheet that has code in it to convert a degree symbol to a caret but we haven't been able to get that to work in ORD so not sure if it's possible or not.
Pardon me for jumping in, but this is the strangest thing I have heard in a while. For all of my career we have jumped thru hoops to get a proper degree symbol on our plans because most rsc fonts either lacked the symbol or had it in an unorthodox slot. Now, any symbol is much easier thanks to improved support of true type fonts and fonts oriented to the civil engineer.
Wouldn't it be better in the long term to adapt whatever downstream processes are in play to use the properly formatted reports you now have available to you? It really sounds like that those down stream systems was one of the hoops your organization jumped thru to overcome defiicinecies of the past. Why not just reverse that old hoop and put things back to rights?
Robert Garrett