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[zph]

Good day all!

"{\\W0.8;...\\P\\pxt9;}..."

The above is the [assoc 1] result of running the code below and selecting a Mtext entity:

(entget (car (entsel)))

I've never seen the "\\pxt9;" mtext formatting code before.  I searched around the net and didn't locate any references to it.  Do you guys have any idea what it is, or does?

Thanks!

[Ranjit_Singh1]

Mtext can be formatted in  a lot of ways. Post your drawing and someone can analyze. You should be able to change the text (formatting etc.) and see how the assoc 1 changes.

pxi is for bullets in Mtext. See here

[SeeMSixty7 · Accepted solution]

After playing around with the mtext editor for a while, JOY! discovered that the lower case px basically means Paragraph setting.

anything that follows that is a setting t9 happens to mean TAB location at 9 spaces.

You could just as easily see something like pxt2,t4,t8,t10  that would mean tab settings at 2 4 8 and 10.

Hope that helps.

[zph]

Thank you for the info, CM67.

This makes sense.

I was messing around with myself by entmod'ing the assoc 1 and found that I could change the px#, but no changes would occur after doing so, but the assoc 1 would show the updated px#.

It may have been the remnants of a bullet/list/etc...that was started on the 1st line of MTEXT, but wasn't fully deleted off the first line.  The px# may be a way that AutoCAD converts the text formatting values that are pulled in from external programs.  Who knows 🙂

Thanks again!

~Z

[SeeMSixty7]

the pxt# woudl only put a tab stop in the paragraph it does not mean it woudl affect anything except if you had tabs in the paragraph.

so if you had something like:

\\pxt10,t12;Here\tIs\tAnother 

You should see a difference then. depending on if your mtext boundary is large enough for those tab settings.

Good luck