Text fonts and styles

The words 'font' and 'style' are text terminology and can be explained as:

Font	defines the pattern which is used to draw characters, i.e. it is basically an alphabet 'appearance'. AutoCAD 2006 has over 100 fonts available to the user.
Style	defines the parameters used to draw the actual text characters, i.e. the width of the characters, the obliquing angle, whether the text is upside-down, backwards, etc.

Notes
1. Text fonts are 'part of' the AutoCAD package
2. Text styles are created by the user
3. Any text font can be used for many different styles
4. A text style uses only one font
5. If text fonts are to be used in a drawing, a text style MUST BE CREATED by the user
6. New text fonts can be created by the user, but this is outside the scope of this book
7. Text styles can be created:
  1. by keyboard entry
  2. via a dialogue box.
Close all existing drawings then open your A3PAPER template file with model space active.

At the command line enter STYLE and

prompt	Enter name of text style or [?]
enter	? the 'query' option
prompt	Enter text style(s) to list<*>
enter
prompt	AutoCAD Text Window
with	Style name: "Standard" Font files: txt (or similar) Height: 0.00 Width Factor: 1.00 Obliquing angle: 0.0 Generation: Normal Current test style: "Standard".

1. this is AutoCAD 2006's 'default' text style
2. it has the text style name STANDARD and uses the text font 'txt'
3. realise that your...

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