Editing Annotation Font Properties

This task explains how to access and, if needed, edit annotation font properties.

Open the Brackets_views03.CATDrawing document. Create a free text, for example.

1. Double-click the text to switch it to edit mode.

2. Select the whole text (you can also select only part of the text) and then select the Edit-> Properties command.

You can also right-click on the selected text and then choose Properties from the contextual menu.

3. In the Properties dialog box that appears, click the Font tab. The associated panel is displayed.

	`Font`, `Style`, `Size, Underline` and`Color`: choose the font, size, style and color of the text, and underline it.
	`Attributes`: draw a line through (`Strikethrough`) or above (`Overline`) the selected text, and make it superscript or subscript.

You can either underline or overline a text, but you cannot do both.

Character:

	`Ratio`: modify character size.
	`Slant`: modify character slant (for italic text, slant=15 deg).
	`Spacing`: change the spacing between characters.
	`Pitch`: set a fixed or a variable pitch. As an example, create the free text "Tools" and apply the font ROM1.


Fixed Pitch	Variable Pitch

The Slant and Pitch options are available only for stroke fonts.

Clicking the More button will display extra options, if any are available.

4. Modify the available options as required.

5. Click OK.

For more information on font properties, please refer to the Infrastructure User's guide.

Changing Character Ratio and Spacing

In this task, you will learn how to change the character ratio and spacing of a portion of text, but it is also possible to change these for a whole text.

Create a free text.

1. Double-click the text to switch it to edit mode.

2. Select a portion of text and right-click it.

3. Click Properties in the menu that appears. The Properties dialog box appears.

4. Click the Font tab.

5. In the Character area, increase or decrease the value in the Ratio field to change the character ratio.

5. Modify the value in the Spacing field to change the character spacing.

6. Click OK to validate your changes. The text is updated.

Making Text Superscript or Subscript

In this task, you will learn how to make a text superscript, how to make a text subscript, and how to specify their position.

Create a free text.

1. Double-click the text to switch it to edit mode.

2. Type a text, "subscript" for example, after the text you created previously.

3. Select the piece of text you just typed and right-click it.

4. Click Properties in the menu that appears. The Properties dialog box appears.

5. Click the Font tab.

6. In the Attributes area, select the Subscript check box.

7. Click OK to validate your changes. The selected text is made subscript.

8. Now type another text, "superscript" for example, after the existing text. For the moment, the new text takes on the properties of the subscript text in front of it.

9. Select the piece of text you just typed and right-click it.

10 Repeat steps 4 and 5.

11. In the Attributes area, select the Superscript check box (instead of Superscript) and click OK. The selected text is made superscript.

12. For the purpose of this exercise, you will now align the subscript and superscript texts and set their offset and size. To do this, select the whole text and right-click it.

The offset defines the vertical position of the superscript or subscript text from the baseline of the text. The size defines the height of the superscript or subscript text. Both values are expressed as a percentage of the font size.

13. Click Properties in the menu that appears.

14. In the Properties dialog box, click the Text tab.

15. In the Options area, select the Back Field check box to align the texts.

16. Increase or decrease the values for the superscript and subscript texts in the Offset and Size fields to set the offset and size.

17. Click OK to validate. The subscript and superscript texts are now aligned and set as defined.

This functionality does not always work when the text is wrapped.