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DESCRIPTION

A textdetails attribute controls details regarding the presentation of some text, including the size, style, alignment, and color. These details have defaults that will often be satisfactory; text details specifications may be used when it is desired to override the defaults. Virtually every text attribute in the ploticus system has an accompanying textdetails attribute.

Text capabilities vary depending on the output format. See fonts for more information.

A textdetails specification occupies one line in a script file and contains one or more sub-attribute settings. A sub-attribute setting has the form subattribute=value with no embedded spaces. Multiple sub-attribute settings on the line are separated by white-space.

SUB-ATTRIBUTES

size=p integer point size of the text. 10 point is standard. A point is 1/72th of an inch.

style=s

style font variant. s may be either B for bold, I for italic, BI for bold-italic, or R for regular. This has an effect only when rendering in PostScript and SVG, and cannot be combined with the font= subattribute.

font=fontname

use the font fontname. This has an effect only with PostScript, SVG, or PNG/JPEG/WBMP with FreeType2 enabled. It cannot be combined with the style= subattribute. See fonts for more info. Spaces within fontname must be represented using a exlamation point symbol (!).

align=a

alignment or justification. a may be either L for left, C for centered, R for right justified.

adjust=x,y

vector adjustment in absolute units to default position.

color= color

EXAMPLE

Titledetails: size=12 color=blue style=BI adjust=0,0.2