TEXALIGN

Required Arguments

halign

character string enclosed in quotation marks or character variable name. Valid values are as follows:

• CENTER
• LEFT
• NORMAL (the natural alignment based on the text path); alignment is chosen according to the following logic:

  1. If TEXPATH is 'RIGHT', then NORMAL is 'LEFT'.
  2. Otherwise, if TEXPATH is 'LEFT', then NORMAL is 'RIGHT'.
  3. Otherwise, the text string is centered.
• RIGHT

valign

character string enclosed in quotation marks or character variable name. Valid values are as follows:

• BASE (alignment based on the baseline of the text string)
• BOTTOM (alignment based on the bottom of the text string)
• HALF (alignment based on the vertical midpoint of the string)
• NORMAL (natural alignment based on the text path); alignment is chosen according to the following logic:

  1. If TEXPATH is 'RIGHT' or TEXPATH is 'LEFT', then NORMAL is 'BASE'.
  2. Otherwise, if TEXPATH is 'UP', then NORMAL is 'BOTTOM'.
  3. Otherwise, if TEXPATH is 'DOWN', then NORMAL is 'TOP'.
• TOP (alignment based on the top of the string).