Greater than or equal to symbol

[MotownMutt]

Hi,

I'm trying to enter a Greater than or equal to sign using the symbol manager from the Mtext editor, with no success. I've also copied the symbol to Notepad and tried to import the text file, but it translated in as == instead of >=. If I underline the Greater Than symbol, it will work, but the underline then extends to the remainder of the text.

Thanks for any thoughts,

Mutt

 

[SteveSmith]

In the MTEXT editor click the properties tab and under style select a text that has the symbol which you have already set up with the Text Style command (format/text style) such as "Line Printer BT". I'll use line printer bt as an example. Once you've selected the text style go back to the character tab and where you want to enter the symbol hit ALT 0182 (using the number pad keys) at the same time and you will now have placed the symbol. Good luck. Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.

http://www.stacoenergy.com

 

[SteveSmith]

One other thought on this. If you underline the greater than
only sign it should not extend past it. Are you highlighting the > only when you select the underline button? That should get you what you want.

Regards, Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.

http://www.stacoenergy.com

 

[CDH]

If you are putting in the underline in ACAD, you need to specify an end for it as well - %%u>%%u
Try this and see if it works

 

[MotownMutt]

CDH,
With Dtext your stop characters worked, but when converting to mtext it went back.

Steve,
Someone else also told me that they were able to selectively underline, but it hasn't worked for me. It extends to everything else in the text window after I click OK. I've recently installed Express tools, I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

I haven't tried setting up a new text style, I'll see where that gets me.

Thanks for the responses!

mtm

 

[SteveSmith]

Your welcome MotownMutt. Your right in that something must of corrupted your AutoCAD. As to whether it was Express Tools or something else I can't tell you. Of course you could try to reload AutoCAD and see if that corrects the problem. Good luck.

My Regards,

Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.

http://www.stacoenergy.com

 

[CDH]

Yeah it must be AutoCAD
when I tried in mtext, I could select just the symbol and underline it and it was fine, so I'm not really sure what the problem is.

 

[katy]

Thank all of you in helping me with this same problem. I, like "MotownMutt" have this problem also "With Dtext your stop characters worked, but when converting to mtext it went back."

I made a small notepad reference file for future reference containing CDH's first.

%%u>%%u is "greater than and equal to".
%%u<%%u is &quot;less than and equal to&quot;.
%%>%% is &quot;greater than&quot;.
%%<%% is &quot;less than&quot;.

Katy Cook
Engineering Systems Coordinator
F. E. Myers, Co.