Text Styles dialog General tab

Sets the Active Font — the font (typeface) of text when placed.

The Font option menu lists all RSC, TrueType, and non-bigfont SHX fonts (grouped by type, in that order) found on your system. If you want to specify a SHX bigfont for your base SHX font, use the controls on the Advanced tab. A SHX bigfont can only be specified if the base font is a SHX font.

Key-in: ACTIVE FONT [font_name|font_number]

Key-in: FT= <font_name|font_number>

Sets the Active Text Height — the height, in working units, of text upon placement.

Key-in: ACTIVE TXHEIGHT [mu:su:pu]

Key-in: TH= <mu:su:pu>

Sets the Active Text Width — the width, in working units, of text upon placement.

Key-in: ACTIVE TXWIDTH [mu:su:pu]

Key-in: TW= <mu:su:pu>

Displays the on or off status of the Annotation Scale lock. When placing text, the lock must be on to ensure that text is placed at the defined Annotation Scale.

The annotation scale is set in the Model Properties dialog. It defines the scale for text and dimensioning in the model.

Key-in: lock useannotationscale <OFF | ON | TOGGLE>

(Only available if Italics is on) Sets the angle, in degrees, by which text is slanted when placed.

Key-in: ACTIVE TXSLANT [angle]

Sets the position of text relative to its origin (the position where the data point is entered when using the Place Text tool). Bentley PowerMap supports all justification types for both single-line or multi-line text.

• Left Top

• Left Center

• Left Bottom

• Left Descender

• Center Top

• Center Center

• Center Bottom

• Center Descender

• Right Top

• Right Center

• Right Bottom

• Right Descender

Key-in: ACTIVE TXJ [CB | CC | CT | LB | LC | LT | RB | RC | RT]

If on, allows you to select the color of the text when placed, using the color picker, True Color value or Color Book.

Bold text when placed, if on.

Italicize text when placed, if on.

Underline text when placed, if on.

Key-in: ACTIVE TXUNDERLINE [OFF | ON | TOGGLE]

Place a line over the text when placed, if on.

If on, this placement option automatically creates fractions when a “/” (normal stacked fraction) or “#” (diagonal stacked fraction) is encountered. This setting only affects text during placement, and is not persisted on the resulting element(s). This means that when editing elements with this style, the Fractions setting´s value is taken from the active settings, not the element.

Three configuration variables also control the format of fractions:

• MS_TEXT_AUTOSTACKFRACTIONS_TYPE

• MS_TEXT_AUTOSTACKFRACTIONS_ALIGNMENT

• MS_TEXT_STACKFRACTIONS_SCALE

Orient text vertically when placed, if on.

Key-in: ACTIVE TXVERTICAL [OFF | ON | TOGGLE]

If on, perform full text justification. Full justification adjusts word spacing so that no word is hyphenated to complete a line of text.