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System Variables
CTABLESTYLE
Sets the name of the current table style.
FIELDDISPLAY
Controls whether fields are displayed with a gray background.
FIELDEVAL
Controls how fields are updated.
Work with Text Styles
When you enter text into your drawing, the current text style determines the
text font, size, angle, orientation, and other text characteristics.
Overview of Text Styles
All text in a drawing has a text style associated with it. When you enter text,
the program uses the current text style.
The current text style sets the font, size, obliquing angle, orientation, and
other text characteristics. If you want to create text using a different text style,
you can make another text style current. The table shows the settings for the
STANDARD text style.
The settings for the current text style are displayed at the Command prompts.
You can use or modify the current text style or create and load a new text
style. Once you've created a text style, you can modify its characteristics,
change its name, or delete it when you no longer need it.
Create and Modify Text Styles
Except for the default STANDARD text style, you must create any text style
that you want to use.
Text style names can be up to 255 characters long. They can contain letters,
numbers, and the special characters dollar sign ($), underscore (_), and hyphen
(-). If you don't enter a text style name, the text styles are automatically named
Stylen, where n is a number that starts at 1.
You can modify an existing text style in the Text Style dialog box by changing
the settings. You can also update existing text of that text style to reflect the
changes.
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