Plus and Minus
Samuel W. Smith
In Microstation Is there anyway to put in the plus/minus symbol in
text....
Like the %%P in Autocad ??????
Please help -- SKS...@EROLS.COM
Chad Berreau
Sam,
Yes, provided the font you are using has this as a character.
there does exist a font export utility on the vault which will take an
existing font, convert it to cells, and from there you could add such a
symbol to you font if it doesn't have it already. suggest placing the
symbol in the same slot as other fonts have it for substitution
purposes.
there is also a type of text editor window that will show a map of all
character, and with a mouse you can select a certain character. thinks
its calles wysi..... something odd like that.
I might be nicer if the dialog could be opened as needed for such
instances, then revert back to the more usefull and efficient text
editor window.
hope this helps.
chad
btw, you should be able to do a chord. <alt><0###> and be able to place
a specific character into the text editor, but I have not found this
method to be very reliable. when I have tried this to place the degree
symbol character 176, I would see the degree symbol in the text editor,
but when text was placed would see instead a stack fraction like 33/64.
very confusing.
--
Chad Berreau
Dave Sheldon
In most fonts the plus/minus symbol can be placed by holding down the alt
key and typing 200 or typing forward slash followed by 200
This only works in a font where 200 has been defined as the plus/minus
symbol such as font 1 (working) and font 3 (engineering).
hope this helps
Dave Sheldon
Samuel W. Smith <sks...@erols.com> wrote in article
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Sun Tzo
Samuel W. Smith wrote:
>
> In Microstation Is there anyway to put in the plus/minus symbol in
> text....
> Like the %%P in Autocad ??????
>
> Please help -- SKS...@EROLS.COM
If you are using font # 3 then just key in \200. You can find all of
these vaules by using the fontedit that is delivered with MicroStation
95. You can also remap which key produces what char. i.e. you could
make the ] equal to the +- char.
HTH
Sub Tzo