What is the difference between text style and text formatting?

[Anonymous]

I am going to change the font of my text. It is so confusing I am able to select the font from style panel and formatting panel. What is the different between these two? Isn't this a redundant option??  

[cadffm]

Thats not a TEXTobject, thats a MTEXTobject (important difference)

Inside a Mtext you can overwrite some things like the font with "internal mtext formats".

Are you familiar with blocks and object propertie values ByLayer / ByBlock? In parts mtext-content inside mtext is like lines in a block.

You have textstyle with them properties, one of them is the font for example arial.ttf

The mtextOBJECT referenced to a textstyle.

Each character inside the MText has the propertie Font=ByTextstyle* and the character is displayed in arial.ttf

Now you can change this. MTedit, select your mtext, Select some or all characters and set Font to Webdings.

The mtext object referenced to a textstyle with font arial, but the chars displayed in font webdings.

And you can see it: Select your mtext object, look into propertiepalette, row CONTENTS. You can see more than your normal MText value, right?

An other example is the color. The color of each character is "ByMtext"*

If MTextcolor is set to ByLayer, the MText content is displaying in the color of the layer.

If MTextcolor is set to color6, the MText content is displaying in the color of the mtext object(6)

If you overwrite the character color inside the MText-Editor with color4, the characters will display in color4,

not in the color a mtext layer and not in the color of the mtext object.

Now the Font and the Color of these charcters are totally independent of textstyle-font and layer-color or mtext-object color.

Removing internal formats

mtedit, select the character(s), set propertie back to nomal value or right-click/remove formats (oslt)

One cool third part program to remove them: stripmtext.lsp

* These are just my fancy words to explain it, not standard AutoCAD vocabulary!

[Anonymous]

As a user, we just want to use a simple function, which is the text font. Even though there are some reason behind, that's the responsibility of the program to make it simple and self explanatory. Not throw the question to end users.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Not throw the question to end users

He just tried to answer your question ...

From my point of view:

For users who work well structured ==> they use the styles

For users who ignore well structured drawings, or in some special situations ==> modify the font directly within MTEXT

And as there exist both types of users there exist both options for how to use the formatting for MTEXT objects. Removing any of them will result in a group of people ranting that a function they need was removed. Learning functions is not wrong, then you can decide which one is the better one for your workflow ... saying all other things are wrong just because they are not fitting to your special workflow could not be the result of software development, could it?

Just my 2c, - alfred -

[cadffm]

..it´s working like a normal word processor - like microsoft word for example.

You have a format-template (in Acad it is the textstyle), for example for titles and users can overwrite the predefined character properties

with different color, fonts and so on.