"Character Format" Section

The text of any shape is composed of one or more text blocks. A text block is a section of text with same formatting styles, that is, same font type and size, font color and font attributes (bold, italic, etc.).
In the Character Format section, each block is described in an individual row. The title field of each row shows the position of the last character of this block counting from the beginning of the entire shape text.

Font

This field contains the number of the font it has in the font list of the document. The program generates this list basing on the fonts installed on your system. If you paste some text in the document, and the font of this text is missing on your system, the application will display this text in the Arial font.

Size

This field contains the font size in pixels. Only positive values can be used.

Color

This field specifies the color of the text in the block. The value corresponds to the number of the color in the color palette of the document. The value may vary from 0 to 255.

Style

The number in the field describes the font attributes for the text block. Each attribute is associated with a digit in the binary representation of the number:
2^0=1 - bold;
2^1=2 - italic;
2^2=4 - underlined;
2^3=8 - crossed out.

So, the number for the bold italicized font will be 1+2=3.

Language

The number that specifies of text encoding. This parameter may changed when you choose a new font. For example, 204 corresponds to the Russian language.

Pos

Specifies the position of the characters relevant to the text baseline. 0 - normal, 1 - superscript, 2 - subscript.

Spacing

Specifies the distance between characters. The default value is 0. If it's greater than zero, the spacing increases. If less - decreases.

As shape's text may have different styles and fonts at the same time, this section may have several rows.

Variables from the Character Format section are specified in the following form in the formulas:

[<shape_name>.]Char.<field_name><row_number>

For more information about the Text Properties dialog see Dialogs - Modal dialogs - Text Properties.

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