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colors in the color list or click Other to open the Select Color dialog box. on
page 346
Symbol Inserts a symbol or a nonbreaking space at the cursor position.
Symbols can also be inserted manually. See
Symbols and Special Characters
on page 1257.
Commonly used symbols are listed on the submenu. Click Other to display
the Character Map dialog box, which contains the entire character set for each
font available on your system. Select a character and click Select to place it in
the Characters to Copy box. When you have selected all the characters that
you want to use, click Copy and close the dialog box. In the Label Template
dialog box, right-click and click Paste.
You can use the euro symbol with SHX fonts and their TrueType equivalent
fonts shipped with AutoCAD 2000 and later releases. If your keyboard does
not contain a euro symbol, hold down the Alt key and enter 0128 on the
numeric keypad.
Symbols are not supported in vertical text.
NOTE In the dialog box, the diameter symbol is displayed as %%c, but it is
displayed correctly in the label. The nonbreaking space is unavailable in double-byte
operating systems.
Properties Tab
Controls properties that apply to the whole label template.
Style Applies a text style to the label. The current style is saved in the
TEXTSTYLE on page 2575 system variable. Character formatting for font, height,
and bold or italic attributes is overridden if you apply a new style to an existing
label template. Stacking, underlining, and color attributes are retained in
characters to which a new style is applied.Styles that have backward or
upside-down effects are not applied. If a style defined with a vertical effect is
applied to an SHX font, the text is displayed horizontally in the Label Template
dialog box.
Justification Sets justification and alignment for the label. Top Left is the
default setting. Spaces entered at the end of a line are included as part of the
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