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New User Confused by TEX and Text Insertion Issues - VariCad 2022-2.08 on Win7
Greetings,

I’m exploring the 2022-2.08 trial version of VariCAD. I’m starting with its most basic 2D abilities (which are actually the CAD abilities I mainly use), and I’ve run into my first issues: drawing text.

Issues:
1. I used the TXA command to set the text “Insertion Point” to “Center,” however all new text still defaults to “Lower Left.” I’ve tried entering text using both the fonts “VariCAD Standard” and a true type OCRB-style font, however each new string of text I draw using the TEX command is still drawn using the insertion point as a “Lower Left” insertion point.

Interestingly the font (and font size) changes I made via TXA are stored and applied to new text just as I would expect. As far as I know, it is only the text insertion point changes I made via TXA that are stored but completely ignored. I am, however, able to change the function of text insertion points in existing text via ETX.

2. When drawing TEXt, the status line displays information that seems to be mostly wrong or at least misleading. It displays the following:
“Write text. Click to locate next text, right-click to finish, middle-click to exit.”

a. [Left] “Click[ing] to locate next text…” only inserts spaces into the current text; it doesn’t select a new insertion point for new text as the status bar suggests (at least to me).

b. “… right-click to finish…” arguably doesn’t “finish” the TEX command, as the description suggests. It ends one line of text, but then starts a new line below the previous (as does the return key).

c. “… middle-click to exit” doesn’t actually exit. It seems to produce the same effect as the backspace key or the Ctrl+Z key would. Admittedly, if you click or type either/both long enough, you will exit ‒ and this/these seem[s] to be the only way of exiting AFTER right-clicking/etc.,, if one wishes to keep the text ‒ but I don’t think this is what the status bar implies.

Does VariCAD have problems with text, or am I just confused?


Cordially,
Richard
Who is writing about software produced in the Czech Republic, using a word processor produced in Germany (TextMaker), while sitting in my home in the midwestern USA. Talk about globalization! ;-)
TEX Command Update
Greetings,

While I did not receive a reply on this forum, I received a remarkably quick reply when I contacted VariCAD support.

They described the TEX (single line text) command as "rather deprecated": infer what you will. They suggested that I use the NOTE (multi line text) command instead, which seems to both work as it should and work just fine even for single lines of text.

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