-STYLE command
Creates and modifies text styles.
Alias: FONT
Description
Creates and modifies text styles that set the look of text, such as its font and height. It is meant for macros. Styles determine the look of text in single-line text, mtext, attributes, tables, and dimensions and leaders, but not in dimensional constraints.
Options within the command
- ?
- Lists existing styles and some of their properties including style name, height, generation.
- Text style to create or modify
- Specifies the style name.
- Font type
- SHX: font files created for DWG-based programs like BricsCAD.
- Height
- Indicate the height of the text, measured from the baseline to the top of the ascenders.
- Width
- Makes characters wider or narrower.
- Obliquing angle
- Slants text to the left for a negative number, to the right for a positive number and keep text upright for value 0.
- Draw text backwards
- Toggles backwards text.
- Draw text upside-down
- Toggles upside-down text.
- Draw text vertically
- Toggles vertical text. This option is available only with certain SHX font files and not at all with TTF font file.
- Annotative
- An annotatively-scaled style adjusts its height in paper space automatically, according to the plot scale.