Control Characters for Formatting Text

In Allplan, text can be formatted using control characters placed at the beginning and end of the text item being formatted. The control characters are only visible in the Text dialog box and not in the workspace.

Tip: To enter text that represents a control character (in other words, to enter the control character itself), you need to set another ‘%’ character before you type the control character. The control character is thus interpreted as normal text. For example, enter %%UA in the dialog line to place the text %UA in the workspace.

The following table lists all the control characters you can use to format text.


Does this	Control character	Remark
Sets a tab	%Tnn	n is equivalent to the number of characters for the tab (from the beginning of the line). Place a 0 in front of single-digit numbers. Tabs make sense only if you use non-proportional font types. Example: Number of rafters %T30 20 pieces
Formats the text as superscript.	%+
Formats the text as subscript.	%-
Reduces the text.	%>
Enlarges the text.	%<
Sets the color.	%Cn	Only when the Color stands for pen option is disabled in Show/Hide. n corresponds to the color number.
Sets the pen.	%Sn	Only when Color stands for pen is activated in Show/Hide. n corresponds to the number of the pen/color.
Underlines the text.	%UA	Example: %UAunderlined text%UE
End underline	%UE	Example: %UAunderlined text%UE
Open square bracket	%EA
Close square bracket (box)	%EE
Vertical dividing line in box	%ET	Example: %EAbracket%ETsquare%EE
Open round bracket (bubble)	%RA
Close round bracket (bubble)	%RE
Vertical dividing line in bubble	%RT	see above

The following control characters are entered in the same way. But instead of A, the radius is entered. The number must be a single-digit number between 1 and 9. Disable with % E
Open circle	%Kn	Example: %K5circle with radius5%KE
Close circle	%KE
Open octagon	%Nn	Example: %N5octagon with radius5%NE
Close octagon	%NE
Open diamond	%Vn	Example: %V5diamond with radius5%VE
Close diamond	%VE