Positioning

^FTField Typeset

Positions a field relative to its baseline instead of its top-left.

Category
Positioning
Syntax
^FTx,y

What ^FT does

^FT is like ^FO but anchors text to its baseline (bottom of the characters) rather than the top-left corner. This makes it easier to align text of different sizes on a common line, and it is required for some rotated layouts.

Syntax

^FTx,y

Parameters

ParameterDescriptionValuesDefault
xHorizontal position, dots
yBaseline vertical position, dots

Example

^XA
^FT50,100^A0N,40,40^FDBaseline aligned^FS
^XZ

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