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I am setting up old text to mtext. I want to keep the new mtext in line and spaced evenly. I have the justification to the Bottom left however I end up with the image attached. How do I get the grips to all be at the same location of the mtext? See how some grips are at the text and others are a little below? Any way to fix that?
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Use TEXTALIGN
First it will do the vertical but you can select options and then choose spacing.
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That is a nice command, but we rely heavily on the grip location since we use that spacing and location for things like a legend. This attached image shows how the text lines up with a pre-made grid. I know I can grab a piece of text at a grip and move it spaced out evenly within grid.
I am looking to update text to mtext on templates I am working on, however is text just as good in a situation like this?
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Why the move from TEXT to MTEXT? The latter is not an upgrade, the former is not going away ever.
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I never set up these legends, so I am not sure why they didn't go with tables. Good suggestion though.
But thanks for your opinion on text and mtext. I will probably keep items as text since mtext is giving me a hassle.
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use the tools for the job they are intended for.
if these are bound in a gird and only going to be single line text i would imagine multiline text (MTEXT) is overkill
That said pay attention to the drawing specs/standards. your company, or your client may require a different type of text for different reasons.
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This is a drawback of Mtext, in my opinion, if plain Text will serve your purpose. It's because of descenders, i.e. the lower-case y that appears in your image, and I would bet that the other ones with the grip below the base-line also have y or g or j or p or q or / or ( or ) or some other character(s) that descend(s) below the base-line.
Zoom in close and start an Mtext command, get into Bottom-Left justification, and slowly type in the word testing. Notice that the position shifts as soon as you get to the g -- now the bottom of the object is below the base-line, but the justification uses that bottom of the object.
If you use plain Text, and use [single-word] Left or Center or Right [or Aligned or Fit] justification, not Bottom-Left, etc., then the insertion point will be at the base-line, whether or not there are any descenders. Mtext does not have those single-word justification options that plain Text has.
Oddly, though, in plain Text, if you use [for example] Bottom-Left justification, it puts the base-line raised as might be required by descenders, even if there are no descenders in the content. Annoying but at least consistent -- Mtext only does that shift if there are descenders involved, so the same object can have its position shifted just by changing one character of its content.
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Yes I noticed that about the descenders. Text will have to be my go to for now I guess.
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In properties, try changing the line space style from at least to exactly if you want to stick with mtext and see if it helps
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@TheCADnoob wrote:
In properties, try changing the line space style from at least to exactly if you want to stick with mtext and see if it helps
I tried that, but it doesn't. I do my Mtext that way for other but related purposes, but it doesn't get around the difference between a bottom line of Mtext that has or does not have descenders.