Create and Format Text

Create Text

You can create a Text object using an mlreportgen.ppt.Text constructor, specifying a character vector.

Also, you can create text by using a character vector or string scalar with objects of these PPT API classes:

• Paragraph

• InternalLink

• ExternalLink

• TableEntry

• TextBox

• ContentPlaceholder

• TextBoxPlaceholder

For example:

import mlreportgen.ppt.*;
ppt = Presentation("myPresentation.pptx");
slide1 = add(ppt,"Title Slide");

contents = find(slide1,"Title");
titleText = replace(contents(1),"My Title");

For more information about creating and adding text, see Add and Replace Text.

Create a Subscript or Superscript

You can enable the Subscript or Superscript property for a Text object. Enabling these properties specifies that the text gets treated as a subscript or superscript when you add it to a Paragraph object. For example, you can set up a paragraph to display x2.

super = Text("2");
super.Superscript = true;

para = Paragraph("x");
append(para,super);

Format Text

To format a Text object, use format objects with a Text object Style property or use Text object properties. For example:

t = Text("green text");
t.Style = {Bold(true)};
t.FontColor = "green";

Text Object Formatting	Format Object	Format Property
Font family	FontFamily	Font
Font family for complex scripts to handle locales	FontFamily	ComplexScriptFont
Font size	FontSize	FontSize
Font color	FontColor	FontColor
Bold	Bold	Bold
Italic	Italic	Italic
Strike	Strike	Strike
Underline	Underline	Underline
Subscript	Subscript	Subscript
Superscript	Superscript	Superscript