Mtext Starting new lines too soon; seems to be stacking same words...

[Anonymous]

I created an MTEXT in word, then pasted it into AutoCAD.  I never used the "Enter" key to create new lines, so I expect the paragraph size and justify settings to do that (as it usually does).  For some reason, it is creating new lines at seemigly random places even though there is more than enough room on the current line.  It appears to be placing similar text above itself to start the new lines.  For example, the word "SOUTH" starts 3 lines in a row, but that's really not necessary and is making the whole MTEXT object to big to fit.  I try deleting the space between the new lines, and just add a regular space, but it adds a new line again... not sure why it's doing this and can't find any others with this issue.  Maybe it's a setting?  (see attached images)

[pendean]

You have blank spaces here: did you combine a bunch of separate TEXT objects into one MTEXT? Or did the drafter before you add spaces instead of using indents in MTEXT?

[Anonymous]

Well, they appear to be blank spaces, but there are no actual "space" objects in there.  It just automatically starts a new line between the words.  Even if I delete the one space there is, and add a new one, it just puts it on a new line again.  And no, it was just an MTEXT object, then I pasted the words (paste special > text only) into the blank MTEXT object.  it was never separate TEXT objects.

[pendean]

Post a DWG file with this MTEXT issue present please.

[qnologi]

Not to intrude, but have you read this?

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/remove-space-from-mtext/td-p/3893897