MText line spacing

[Alan Cullen]

G'day all...

When I add text to my drawing I use single line text (mainly because in civil drawings a lot of the text is single line). I have modified my iso3098b font to place the text lines 1.5 x text height apart. The default for iso3098b is 1.8 x text height.

When I convert any of my text to mtext it reverts the text back to the default (1.8 times). I'd like to start using mtext, but until I can figure out how to get the iso3098b font to use 1.5 x text height for line spacing in mtext, I'm stuck with single line text.....

Any help please.......:(

[Cad64]

Select your Mtext and then open the Properties palette. Under the Text section, there is an option for "Line Space Distance". You can set that spacing to whatever you want.

[Alan Cullen]

Thanks, Cad64......
That's a great help, ta.
Now....is there a way to get it to default to the required line spacing ?? :)

[Cad64]

When you start the MTEXT command, you are asked to "Specify First Corner" so click on screen to set the start point. Now at the command line you are presented with some options. One of them is "Line Spacing". Type L and hit enter. You can now specify the spacing you want between lines. The spacing you input becomes the default until you change it to something else.

[Alan Cullen]

Thanks, Cad64......
That's all great....I can now comfortably start using mtext...:D

I was looking for how to do all that...but I just wasn't looking in the right places....:oops:

Ta much....

[lpseifert]

TSPACEFAC=1.5
TSPACETYPE=2 (exactly)

[Ako]

TSPACETYPE, which controls multiline text spacing is an Integer and therefore won't accept decimal places. It will only accept 1 or 2.

Dave