2011

Related topics
■
Annotating with AutoCAD Text Ob-
jects (page 1119)
■ Adding Labels to Features (page 1091)
■
Annotating Drawing Objects (page 1100)
To style a text layer
1 In the Display Manager (page 2060), select the text layer.
2 Click Style
.
3 In the Style Editor, under Style click .
4 In the
Style Text Layer dialog box (page 1640), for Size Context, specify the
type of units and then select the appropriate Units.
■ Select Device to specify symbol widths and heights in screen units.
Available units are Points, Inches, Millimeters, or Centimeters.
■ Select Map to specify symbol widths and heights in Mapping
Coordinate System (MCS) units. Available units are Inches, Feet, Miles,
Millimeters, Centimeters, Meters, and Kilometers.
5 For Text Type, select one of the following:
■ Plain—Formats text uniformly, using the settings specified in this
dialog box. The text has no formatting information itself.
■ Mtext—Formats text as multiline. The settings you specify in this
dialog box are used by default, but you can override them when you
insert individual text features.
The Edit Expression button lets you specify an expression for this setting
for advanced use cases. We recommend that you do not use expressions
for Text Type.
6 For Text, leave the "LABEL_TEXT" value unchanged.
This is the name of a property in the feature class. It specifies that the
text for each text feature is whatever you specify in the Edit Text Instance
dialog box
(page 1627) when you create the text feature. The Delete
Expression button lets you replace this expression for advanced use cases.
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