Automatic spacing in MLEADER command

[chick.biker]

I am having difficulty with the MLEADER command.  In landscape design on a planting plan one labels plants with quantities on the plan.  When I put the quantity in parentheses the command puts in an automatically large space between that text and the letters that follow when I enter a single space.  I see nowhere in the command to change this and it's getting absurdly large sometimes, especially the label in this screenshot that says "(5) HEB PIM".  Is there a setting I can change to fix this?

[pendean]

So... is the problem in ALL of your files, or just this one, or this is the first time you use MLEADER with text, or...?

Your picture does not tell us what the problem is, just the symptom: why not share that portion of your screenshot as a DWG file here for us to dig in deeper.

In the meantime, change fonts to something more basic like ARIAL to confirm if the issue is that or not.

[chick.biker]

 Does that response indicate you think this is not normal?  I will try to change fonts.  The font is just Stylus BT. And I will try to create a file you can diagnose.

[chick.biker]

Okay, I did a test.  I changed the font to Standard, and the command still defaults to a large space.  I have created a block I will post as a file, which contains one mleader with Standard, one mleader with Stylus BT, and a couple where I did not use the text portion of the mleader command and added dtext after as a work-around.

[chick.biker]

One other thing: this only happens when I put in a space after parentheses.

[h_s_walker]

It's because you've got bullets and numbering allowed in multiline text. Untick all the items in the image below.

After you've done that I would also select all the text, right click, move down to REMOVE FORMATTING and select REMOVE ALL FORMATTING, because there are some tab stops in there as well

[pendean]

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@h_s_walker wrote:

It's because you've got bullets and numbering allowed in multiline text....

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Good catch!

[chick.biker]

Thanks, looks promising.  However, I don't know how to get into this menu.  It's not one I've ever seen or used.  Please advise. I don't see it in the Home menu or the Annotate menu.

[h_s_walker · Accepted solution]

@chick.biker 

It will appear in the ribbon at the top or if you can't see it. Right click in the text. See the image below

[chick.biker]

Thank you, this seems to solve it. That feature in ACAD LT doesn't work very well.