Key-in for Text Justification Control

I saw a piece of an article, it referenced a text2 file, I could not find. I found the file plotdlg.ma what a really big help, once I worked through it. I was looking for a similar file on text key-in commands. I went to Ina, but the note claimed the list was no longer being kept up ?.

My problem many times when I open a drawing to edit the text will be left and I need center or right and I need left. I would like a way to just key-in what I want first and not go to paste the text and the justification is off. Any help from some of you really smart guys like Mr. Phil?

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  • RJB,

    the key-in for Justification Left|Center|Right is actually for Enter Data Fields.

    the key-in for text justification is slightly more cryptic..

    .......ANSWER HERE:.....

    Active TNJ LT

    Explaination here...

    TNJ stands for Text Node Justificaiton and the LT (Left Top) can be substituted for any of the following

    LT, LC, LB, CT, CC, CB, RT, RC, RB

    L=Left             T=Top

    C=Center        C=Center

    R=Right          B=Bottoom

    this will also set your justification for Text or Text Node.

    there are 6 other justifications which now most everyone ignores, (LMT, LMC, LMB, RMT, RMC, RMB) in which the M stands for Margin, and was possibly useful back before V8 but now more advanced text editing abilities have made these almost obsolete.

    Brent

    Answer Verified By: RJB 

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  • RJB,

    the key-in for Justification Left|Center|Right is actually for Enter Data Fields.

    the key-in for text justification is slightly more cryptic..

    .......ANSWER HERE:.....

    Active TNJ LT

    Explaination here...

    TNJ stands for Text Node Justificaiton and the LT (Left Top) can be substituted for any of the following

    LT, LC, LB, CT, CC, CB, RT, RC, RB

    L=Left             T=Top

    C=Center        C=Center

    R=Right          B=Bottoom

    this will also set your justification for Text or Text Node.

    there are 6 other justifications which now most everyone ignores, (LMT, LMC, LMB, RMT, RMC, RMB) in which the M stands for Margin, and was possibly useful back before V8 but now more advanced text editing abilities have made these almost obsolete.

    Brent

    Answer Verified By: RJB 

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  • Great, Great and thank you so much. Now a little bit further if you will. I did search through Key-in help, but did not find. The above box shows a command that works. It prints out a message.

     

    I am trying to combine the great information you gave me with the Message printed below at the same time

    m, ms Text set to Left Center,   or m, ms Text sent to Center/Center and so on to match the command active TNJ LC, or active TNJ CC and then tie the commands together, I tried : colon,  ; semi, I just could not know how to series the key-in commands. I keep trying the script files, but I never get them to work. I think I need the script file closer to the root drive ? C:\Script\name.txt ( commands inside of the name.txt file?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    RJB Phillips III - Praise the Lord for His Mercy and Grace

  • While I have someone knowledgeable on Key-in commands, I made the script file and they all worked great.

    active TNJ CC
    m,ms              TEXT CENTER/CENTER

     

    active TNJ LC
    m,ms              TEXT LEFT/CENTER and the matching one for RC now can you show me commands to set the Height and Width in the same box?

    Height #1 and Width #2, if you know them the Line Spacing would be wonderful information as well, I have had to set that a few time when using larger text.

    I have learned a Key-in command will not interrupt a command, but the VBA macros will. Thanks for all this help. I have not had any work for 7 months and Now I am trying to get back into  the work full swing.

     

    RJB Phillips III - Praise the Lord for His Mercy and Grace

  • when i type in this key-in, the command window already displays Node Just=LT... do you really need more than that for the message?

     

     

    on your other key-in question..

    you can set Text Height and Width to the same value with the key-in:

    TX=<value>

    if you want to set them separately...

    TH=<value> and TW=<value> for Height and Width respectively...

    and as you may guess...

    LS=<value> for Line Spacing

    Keyboard Shortcuts has a long list of other 2-letter key-ins...

     

    Brent

  •  I was unable to make a Description, I found this and thought it might work somehow with VBA, or could someone give me a similar one to this in VBA?

    I used something like this in my dos day data bases, It was like a menu and gave you choices as what you wanted done.

    This would give some selection to a VBA macro command

    RJB Phillips III - Praise the Lord for His Mercy and Grace