About Text Styles

The current text style sets the font, size, obliquing angle, orientation, and other text characteristics. If you want to create text using a different text style, you can make another text style current. The table shows the settings for the STANDARD text style.

Text Style Settings
Setting	Default	Description
Style name	STANDARD	Name with up to 255 characters
Font name	txt.shx	File associated with a font (character style)
Big Font /Asian Set	None	Special shape definition file used for a non-ASCII character set, such as Kanji
Height	0	Character height
Width factor	1	Expansion or compression of the characters
Obliquing angle	0	Slant of the characters
Backwards	No	Backwards text
Upside down	No	Upside-down text
Vertical	No	Vertical or horizontal text

The settings for the current text style are displayed at the command prompts. You can use or modify the current text style or create and load a new text style. Once you've created a text style, you can modify its characteristics, change its name, or delete it when you no longer need it.

Creating and Modifying Text Styles

Except for the default STANDARD text style, you must create any text style that you want to use.

Text style names can be up to 255 characters long. They can contain letters, numbers, and the special characters dollar sign ($), underscore (_), and hyphen (-). If you don't enter a text style name, the text styles are automatically named Stylen, where n is a number that starts at 1.

Certain style settings affect multiline and single-line text objects differently. For example, changing the Upside Down and Backwards options has no effect on multiline text objects. Changing Width Factor and Obliquing options has no effect on single-line text.

If you rename an existing text style, any text using the old name assumes the new text style name.

Changing Text Style

When you change the text style of a multiline text object, the updated settings are applied to the entire object, and some formatting of individual characters might not be retained. The following table describes the effects of text style change on character formatting.

Formatting	Retained?
Bold	No
Color	Yes
Font	No
Height	No
Italic	No
Stacking	Yes
Underlining	Yes

Annotative Text Styles

Use annotative text for notes and labels in your drawing. You create annotative text by using an annotative text style, which sets the height of the text on the paper.