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Text formatting codes in MText objects.

Paragraph texts in AutoCAD can contain control codes which influence appearance of the text. These formatting control codes are automatically inserted in the internal MText editor. But if you edit your texts with an alternative editor (e.g. Notepad), or if you generate them programmatically, you can use these codes to format your paragraph texts.

Code Function

\L Start underline

\l Stop underline

\O Start overstrike

\o Stop overstrike

\K Start strike-through

\k Stop strike-through

\N New column

\P New paragraph (new line)

\pi \pxi \pxt Control codes for bullets, numbered paragraphs, tab stops and columns - e.g. bullets: \pxi-3,l3,t3;, tab stops: \pxt10,t12;

\X Paragraph wrap on the dimension line (only in dimensions)

\Q Slanting (obliquing) text by angle - e.g. \Q30;

\H Text height - e.g. \H3x;

\W Text width - e.g. \W0.8x;

Font selection

e.g. \Fgdt;o - GDT-tolerance
e.g. \Fkroeger|b0|i0|c238|p10 - font Kroeger, non-bold, non-italic, codepage 238, pitch 10

Stacking, fractions

e.g. \SA^B:
A
B
e.g. \SX/Y:
X
Y
e.g. \S1#4:
¼

Alignment

\A0; = bottom
\A1; = center
\A2; = top

Color change

\C1; = red
\C2; = yellow
\C3; = green
\C4; = cyan
\C5; = blue
\C6; = magenta
\C7; = white

\T Tracking, char.spacing - e.g. \T2;

\~ Non-wrapping space, hard space

{} Braces - define the text area influenced by the code

\ Escape character - e.g. \\ = "\", \{ = "{"

Codes and braces can be nested up to 8 levels deep. Formatting codes can be removed via the context menu in the MText editor.

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See also:
Tip 12697:	Opposite angle for angular dimensions in Inventor drawings (iLogic).
Tip 12069:	Unicode and DXF files.
Tip 11751:	toMulti converts polylines to multi-lines driven by a definition table.
Tip 11289:	Adding, multiplying and rounding numbers inside DWG drawing texts - NumInText.
Tip 8989:	Control codes "%%" in text entities.

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