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Rich Text vs TEXT2 in GDLs

Anonymous
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I would like to see a switch on the Save Selection As... dialog so you can specify whether you want the text to be a simple TEXT2 call, or the whole Rich Text thing. In all the GDL I've done so far, I have never needed the Rich Text version. I have to change it to the TEXT2 version every time.

For example, this...

DEFINE STYLE{2} "AC_STYLE_1" "Arial Narrow", 9'-3.1111", 0
PARAGRAPH "AC_PRG_1" 2, 0'-0.0000", 0'-0.0000", 0'-0.0000", 3'-3.3701"
SET STYLE "AC_STYLE_1" "THE TEXT"
ENDPARAGRAPH
TEXTBLOCK "AC_TEXTBLOCK_1" 6'-0.1569", 5, 0'-0.0000", 3'-3.3701", 3'-3.3701", 3'-3.3701", "AC_PRG_1"
RICHTEXT2 0'-0.0000", -0'-0.0915", "AC_TEXTBLOCK_1"

...only needs to be this...

DEFINE STYLE "AC_STYLE_1" "Arial Narrow", 9'-3.1111", 5, 0
TEXT2 0'-0.0000", -0'-0.0915", "THE TEXT"

I'm pretty sure there are other commands that could use option switches so the resulting GDL can be better tailored to what the programmer is trying to produce.
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