Can anybody give me advice on how to label contours as shown in Figure 2 below? I would like to be able to put the label "on" the line, which is easy enough. But I'd also like for the contour line to have a break in between the label, as shown in Fig. 2. Without the break it is very hard to read the label, unless I use a mask with white background as in Fig 1. Maybe there is some sort of "invisible" masking option that creates the break?? I'm using ArcMap 10.1 on Windows 7 (64 bit)

Figure 1

Figure 2