Text Tool

Behavior

The Text Tool can add free-form text comments to a circuit, or create and edit labels associated with components. Most components in the built-in libraries support labels, though some do not.

For components that can take a label but have none assigned to it currently, click anywhere within the component to add a label. If there is already a label, click with the label to edit it.

Click any blank area of the canvas to add a new text comment, or click an existing text comment to edit it.

Attributes

When editing a label for a component, that component's attributes are displayed.

Text

The text appearing in the comment. This can be edited by changing the attribute in the attribute table, or using the Text Tool directly the canvas.

Font

The font used for the comment.

Horizontal Alignment

Controls the horizontal alignment, as well as where the text appears relative to the origin (i.e. where the mouse was clicked when creating the comment). "Left" uses left-alignment, and positions the text so its left edge is at the origin. "Right" uses right-alignment, and positions the text so its right edge is at the origin. "Center" horizontally centers each line, and positions the text horizontally so the center is at the origin.

Vertical Alignment

Controls the where the text appears relative to the origin (i.e. where the mouse was clicked when creating the comment). "Base" positions the text so the origin is at the baseline of the first line of text. "Top" positions the text so the origin is at the top of first line of the text. "Bottom" positions the text so the origin is at the bottom of the first line of text. "Center" centers the first line of text vertically at the origin. NOTE: For legacy reasons, when there are multiple lines of text, vertical alignment is relative to the first line of text, never to the last line or to the entire block of text.

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