Thankyou everyone for your responses.
I have got the required symbols onto the drawings using mtext (as described above).
It is a shame that there is no way of inserting the symbols into dtext, as the text strings on the old drawings I am updating generally contain dtext only.
I will just...
Thanks Lothar - that is a usefull link (I also like the conversion program).
At my old company they had set up a unique text style which obviously used different extended ASCII symbols.
Is there a way of inserting the centerline symbol (also the 3/4 symbol) into romans text, or do I have to...
Is it possible (for any given text style) to see what all of the %%123 synonyms are?
I seem to remember that to get a centreline symbol in the old version of autocad that I used to use - using text style Romans, it was %%174. This now gives me a ?.
Also is there (or has there ever been) a way...
Knowkeys, thanks for the response.
It turned out that the font I was using could not be obliqued. I used MTEXT, and set the angle in the STYLE window, and this worked a treat. Thanks again.
admiralken, thanks for the response, I tried this but it came back with the same error. It errors when any angle in excess of 150deg is put in.
I am sure that in previous versions of acad it accepted both 330 and -30?
I am having problems obliquing text in 2000.
The acad help tells me that I should be able to assign minus angles to the oblique field, but when I do it says 'invalid Argument angle in obliqueangle property'
I am trying to assign rotation angle 30, oblique angle -30 to get the text inside an...
