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How to change the space between single text?

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Topic: How to change the space between single text?
Posted By: jmontesmx
Subject: How to change the space between single text?
Date Posted: 11.Dec.2013 at 04:46

Will someone tell me how to change the default spacing for single line text?

Thanks for all your help.


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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 11.Dec.2013 at 11:32
Spacing between lines or between characters?

And just to be clear, you are talking about DText not MText right?

This thread addresses both.

http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/qaID.asp?tip=4309

Re: DText/line spacing

There is no system variable for this. The line spacing is hardcoded into
the font definition (.shp) file.


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Posted By: jmontesmx
Date Posted: 11.Dec.2013 at 17:13

Right Jhon, I'm talking about DText.

The space that I need change is between characters.

Thanks

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 11.Dec.2013 at 18:12
That's called kerning.

In typography, kerning (less commonly mortising) is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font.

There is no way to do that in DText.

"AutoCAD 2012 (and higher) supports TrueType as well as its proprietary SHX fonts, and offers kerning control in multiline text objects. Kerning enables you to adjust the distance between characters in a range of text, tightening or loosening them to enhance readability or fit.

AutoDesk provides 15 formatting codes to control paragraph attributes including color, text height, character width, typeface, alignment and obliquing. Among these codes, the "\T" option controls character spacing, allowing you to apply kerning ranging from 0.75 to 4 times the default letter spacing."

Source: Elizabeth Mott, Demand Media - Font Kerning in AutoCAD.


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