Element: textstyle.path

Type

string

Description

The path for text display. This can be one of the following:

• LtoR draw text left to right

• RtoL draw text right to left

• TtoB draw text top to bottom

• BtoT draw text bottom to top

The path is not the angle at which text is drawn, this is supplied by the gtext or glabel entity to which the textstyle is being applied. The angle provides a constant drawing angle for all individual characters.

The path provides how subsequent characters are drawn relative to the previous character, e.g. an angle of 0 with a path LtoR would draw characters as one would expect, but an angle of 0 with a path of TtoB would draw one character below the next.

Setting this attribute to an empty string will set it to the current default text path value, i.e. the value of def_text_path.