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MText

Multiline, paragraph-style text with per-run formatting (bold, color, fonts mixed within one object).

MText (multiline text) is AutoCAD's paragraph-style text object — it wraps to a defined width, supports mixed formatting within a single object (different fonts, sizes, colors, bullet lists), and is what most drawing notes and general annotation use today.

Because formatting can vary within one MText object, extracting or bulk-editing its content has to handle that structure, rather than treating the object as one flat string.

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