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Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: yyou on July 09, 2004, 04:03:48 PM: Why do people use mtext for a short text like: '4x6' or '2' or '8"'....?

I went to help out a company 2 wks ago and all there text are done in Mtext. The text editor there is wordpad; therefore, whenever I wanted to edit a text wordpad came up. It is really a time consumming.
Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: Slim© on July 09, 2004, 04:28:02 PM: Was there a leader attached to the text, if so that is why.

Leaders to the best of my knowledge attach only to MText.
Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: CADaver on July 09, 2004, 09:01:20 PM: I use MTEXT for everything, but we have little 1 or 2 button key-ins for everything, too.

TIP:
Use MTEXTED to prefix your wordpad text editor with :lisped# as in:

:lisped#C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe

If the mtext entity has less than 32 characters it will pop up in a dialog box editor just like single line text, more than 32 will pop to the editor.
Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: Keith™ on July 10, 2004, 12:39:41 AM: Wow CADaver.. that is a nice little trick....never seen that one before... I have set that to my default
Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: MP on July 10, 2004, 02:11:02 AM: Quote from: CADaver
If the mtext entity has less than 32 characters it will pop up in a dialog box editor just like single line text, more than 32 will pop to the editor.

I didn't know that, thank you Mr. CADaver.
Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: hendie on July 10, 2004, 03:47:45 AM: excellent tip, how did you ever discover that one ?
Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: CADaver on July 10, 2004, 07:36:17 AM: It was in the R13 User's guide for using external text editors with MTEXT. Been using it ever since.
Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: hendie on July 10, 2004, 07:51:39 AM: Cadaver, I hope you don't mind but I've posted it as a tip over on ResourceCAD... and I added a note:
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full credits for this tip go to CADAVER
Title: Dtext & Mtext
Post by: CADaver on July 10, 2004, 07:56:21 AM: Quote from: hendie
Cadaver, I hope you don't mind but I've posted it as a tip over on ResourceCAD... and I added a note:
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full credits for this tip go to CADAVER
Why would I mind, sure go ahead, I just wish I'd have posted it sooner.