HP 5961-0509 manual 15Character Slope Rise and Run, 23-30The Character Group

You can express the parameters in measured units as rise and run, or using the trigonometric functions cosine and sine according to the following relationship.

Where: run and rise = number of measured units

θ= the angle measured in degrees sin θ/cos θ = rise/run

θ= tan–1(rise/run)

and

tan θ = sin θ/cos θ

Note that the run and rise determine the slope or angle of an imaginary line under the base of each character in the label. Refer to the following illustration.

Figure 23-15Character Slope Rise and Run

When plotting in horizontal mode (you have not used the DV command), the run and rise appear to determine the slope of the entire label. However, if you have used the Define Variable Text Path (DV) command to label in a vertical path, the label appears to slant in the opposite direction, even though the base of each letter is plotted on the same slope. The following illustration compares how labels plotted with the same run and rise parameters appear with horizontal (DV0) and vertical (DV1) text paths.

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