2020-08-28 New Text Mapper feature: map size adjustments

Eric Scheid sent me some feedback regarding Text Mapper and we ended up talking about a new feature to add or trim rows and columns to the map. Until now, adding rows at the top and columns at the left was a problem: you had to do some clever search and replace operations using your text editor if you wanted to do it.

Now, there are more options available to you: below the “Generate Map” button there’s now the following

Add (or remove if negative) rows or columns: top *_* left *_* right *_* bottom *_* add empty [ ]

And it seems to work! We’re still testing it, but if you notice something amiss, let me know.

Some strange things that I’m aware of:

• if you add or remove an odd number of columns on the left, you’re going to change how the columns stack – not too much of a problem, I think, but probably surprising!
• if you remove rows or columns containing “lines” (rivers, trails, roads), then those stay if they’re not entirely outside the map – meaning that they can now potentially extend beyond the edges of the map if you trimmed some of the regions these passed through and you’ll have to trim them yourself

Feel free to share links to your maps in the comments. I always love to see them.

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