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Vensim Help

Following the justification character you can name a font and color.  The format for this is:

|font name|font size|font attributes|red-green-blue|

font name is the name of a font such as "Times New Roman".
font size is the size of the font in points.
font attributes can be any of
B for bold.
I for italic
U for underline
S for strike-through
red-green-blue is the color specification as an RGB color.  Each of red, green and blue should be a value between 0 and 255 inclusive.

If you do not specify all components of the fonts and color whatever SCREENFONT you may have set will be used to fill in the remaining components.  Thus the definition:

:SCREEN TEXT

RECTANGLE,"",10,10,80,80

TEXTONLY," clear center ",50,5,0,10,C

TEXTONLY," opaque bottom center ",50,85,0,10,c

TEXTONLY,"right",90,50,0,0,R

TEXTONLY,"left",10,50,0,0,L

TEXTONLY,"big",40,20,0,0,L||22|

TEXTONLY,"tiny",40,40,0,0,L||6|

TEXTONLY,"bold",40,50,0,0,L|||B|

TEXTONLY,"script",40,60,0,0,L|Symbol|14||0-0-0

Will generate the output:

NOTEYou can specify a font by clicking on the Font button in the Control Definition dialog.  

The Text Editor also contains a function to insert font and color names so that you can choose the font you want more accurately.  To use this type C| for justification and then invoke Edit>Insert>Font or click on the Font button on the status bar.  A font selection dialog will appear.  Select the font and click OK.