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I am trying to create a text style without justification so that text can be placed at left, right or center justified without creating several text styles. There is an option under the Text Styles > Advanced tab for justification: None, but this seems to have no impact on justification under the Main tab Justification window.
The problem arises when I attempt to change ONLY the style of text, the justification changes to whatever is shown in the justification window.
Is there a way to create a text style without justification? Btw: I’ve tried Style: None, but it still takes on a justification.
TIA
Bill
Hi,
When you change the style of your text, do you need to change the style, or just individual attributes of the style? Perhap you can check which attributes you want to change without changing the style.
--Robert
The problem with the way styles run at the moment is that any justification change then changes the style. I'm all for justification independent styles. Bit fed up with a style for each text justification required.
JMO.
I think it would be best if Styles could be applied in an additive condition. If Styles could have sections left undefined, then this would allow different Styles to apply groups of settings.
I know that individual aspects of text can be changed independently. What I'm concerned with is inadvertently changing the justification on multiple pieces of text when changing or updating a text style.
It seems silly to me that when we use text that has standard font, size and line spacing that is often placed at left and center and occasionally right justified on numerous drawings, that I have to use an entirely different text style for each occasion to be safe.
Again, does anyone have a clue asto why there is an option for Justification:None that doesn't seem to work?
Ditto!!! I've had to create several different text styles to satisfy the different justification requirements of a number of InRoads commands where the justification is the only difference in the text. And there are certain commands that place text on one side or the other of an element, (depending on geometry) that just don't work right with a fixed justification (unless it is center). As far as that goes, there are several MicroStation commands that will automatically change the justification as text is placed (text above or below an element for instance). If styles must have a fixed justification, is it too much to ask that any command that uses the style, in MicroStation or in companion applications, have the capability to override the style justification just as Place Text Above and Place Text Below do?
BTW - I've already griped about this in an InRoads post in the passed month or two. In InRoads, if you change the justification, you loose some of the other properties of the selected style, (like background), and the Style selector displays blank.