Adjust text location/spacing within complex linetypes.

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Summary: Allow users to be able edit the placement, spacing, or existence of a piece of text within a complex linetype.

Description: Like the new Array in 2012, it would be nice to be able to Ctrl-pick a piece of embedded text, allowing the user to 1) "slide" it along the line to a new location or 2) delete that instance of text (thus healing the line). Similarly, when selecting a complex line, 1) have an option to "edit source" (i.e. the embedded text), changing it throughout the line, or 2) have an option to adjust the spacing between the embedded text objects throughout the line.

Product and Feature: AutoCAD - Linetype

Submitted By: Chris Lindner on 12/18/2012

[Tom Beauford]

Linetype definitions haven't changed since Complex ones were introduced in r13 before Mtext was around. None of the advantages of Mtext have since been incorperated in Complex Linetypes.

1. I'd like see features like Mtext has like referencing fonts instead of Text Styles and Background mask for the text. Then I could call out a font instead of having to create a Text Style using the font just to reference a character. A and S are still the only alignment codes and only A which guarentees the ends always start and end with a dash is documented. Perhaps the more current type formating could be used with a new alighment code.

2. The abaility to set the text angle without being able to center justify it has always been useless.