How can two different size of text be actually the same size?

[john.p.addy]

I'm having a issue here.  I have talked to my co-worker also and he did not even notice what was wrong.

Here is the picture I sent him but I high lighted what I was hoping he would noticed.

How can two different size of text be actually the same size.

[ The subject line of this post has been edited for clarity by @handjonathan Original: I'm confused here.]

[pendean · Accepted solution]

MTEXT text allow for manual overrides: it's a feature, just like color etc.
PROPERTIES is showing you the default settings: it never shows overrides, and in this instance, it cannot even change them back.

It's been like that in AutoCAD since MTEXT showed up, 30+years now? Possibly longer.

[john.p.addy]

OK thank you,  I never knew that and have worked on AutoCAD since Acad 10

[Kent1Cooper]

If it's a height difference from Mtext-content-internal formatting, you can see the current height anywhere in it [and compare that to the Mtext object's nominal height]:  get into the Mtext editor, pick in the part you want to know about, and the ribbon will show you:

[cadffm]

Check the property CONTENTS to see the real MText (contents) value, incl. all internal format overrides.

[CalamityJane32]

and if you don't' want them to be overridden, there is a handy lisp called STRIPMTEXT that set everything back to its default values.

[illusionistNUGXG]

It seems, that it doesn't make sense to be able to override the height of the MText at first look.

But it can have various text-heights within the same MText. Now you can scale the complete MText with the "global" text-height.

Unfortunately...it can get quite messy, if you get careless. (The main text-height should match the "global" text-height of the MText)

[RobDraw]

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@illusionistNUGXG wrote:

Now you can scale the complete MText with the "global" text-height.

Unfortunately...it can get quite messy, if you get careless. (The main text-height should match the "global" text-height of the MText)

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What is "global" text height and how do you use scale to match it?

[illusionistNUGXG]

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@RobDraw  schrieb:
What is "global" text height (...)?

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Uhm...with "global" text height i meant the set height of the MText in the PROPERTIES.

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@RobDraw  schrieb:
(...) and how do you use scale to match it?

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Scaling to match it doesn't work.

What i tried (and failed) to say was:

With different text-heights in one MText - At first make sure that the main used text is set to the same text-height value as the MText height in the properties.

As example: I have a MText with a height of 10 and most of the text inside is also set to the height of 10. To highlight a part of the text, it is set (overwritten) to a height of 15. It has 1,5 the size of the main text.

If i now change the height of the MText in the properties to 18 the main text will be 18 and the highlighted part "scaled" to 27. It will keep the 1 : 1,5 ratio between these two.

[RobDraw]

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@CalamityJane32 wrote:

and if you don't' want them to be overridden, there is a handy lisp called STRIPMTEXT that set everything back to its default values.

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There is also the "Remove Formatting" option in the MText editor.

Highlight the text and it's in the right click menu.

[illusionistNUGXG]

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@RobDraw  schrieb:
There is also the "Remove Formatting" option in the MText editor.

Highlight the text and it's in the right click menu.

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Oh, nice...didn' know that one.

I'll add it into my workflow.