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A Text Style is a named, saved collection of settings that determine the appearance of text characters, for example, the settings include things like font, stretched, compressed, oblique, mirrored etc... The primary marker of any text style is LiteCAD font (LCF) or Windows TTF font that is assigned to that text style.
The LiteCAD package contains LCFont.exe program which can create LCF font file from AutoCAD SHX/SHP or Windows TTF font.
New Text entities are added to a drawing using the current text style.
When you create a new drawing, it already has one text style, by default, named "Standard".

These are the functions used to manage text styles in a drawing:

Function	Meaning
lcDrwAddTextStyle	Adds a new text style into a drawing
lcDrwDeleteObject	Deletes an object from a drawing
lcDrwCountObjects	Counts a number of objects, by type
lcDrwSortObjects	Sorts objects by LC_PROP_TABLE_PRIORITY
lcDrwGetFirstObject lcDrwGetNextObject	Used to sequentially retrieve all objects
lcDrwGetObjectByName	Retrieves an object by its name
lcDrwGetObjectByID lcDrwGetObjectByIDH	Retrieves object by its identifier

Text style object has the following properties:

Property	Type	Access	Meaning
LC_PROP_TABLE_...    Base class properties
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_ID	int string	R	Unique Identifier Hexadecimal string (up to 16 characters)
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_NAME	string	RW	Text style name
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_DESCR	string	RW	Text style description
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_DRW	handle	R	Handle to owner drawing
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_FONT	string	RW	Font filename. Null or empty string means to load the font
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_HFONT	handle	R	Handle to font
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_HEIGHT	float	RW	Default height
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_WSCALE	float	RW	Default width scale
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_OBLIQUE	float	RW	Default oblique angle
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_ANGLE	float	RW	Default rotation angle
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_ALIGN	int	RW	Default alignment
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_UPDOWN	bool	RW	"Upside down" flag
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_BACKWARD	bool	RW	"Backward" flag
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_LINESPACE	float	RW	Default linespace
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_CHARSPACE	float	RW	Default charspace
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_MONOWIDTH	float	RW	Width of monospaced font
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_STANDARD	bool	R	"Standard" flag
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_SHAPES	bool	R	"Shapes" flag
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_WINFONT	bool	RW	if TRUE - Windows True Type font is used
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_SOLID	bool	RW	TRUE - text chars are solid, FALSE - outline and filling are separate
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_CLOSED	bool	R	TRUE - font chracters consist from closed shapes
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_HOLLOW	bool	R	TRUE - font chracters are closed and not solid
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_BOLD	bool	RW	"Bold" flag (for LC_ENT_TEXTWIN)
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_ITALIC	bool	RW	"Italic" flag (for LC_ENT_TEXTWIN)
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_UNDERLINE	bool	RW	"Underline" flag (for LC_ENT_TEXTWIN)
LC_PROP_TSTYLE_STRIKEOUT	bool	RW	"Strikeout" flag (for LC_ENT_TEXTWIN)

See also

  Named objects,   Text,   Multiline text,   Arc text