CharacterPropertiesBase.Position Property

Gets or sets the position of characters (in points) relative to the base line.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native

Assembly: DevExpress.RichEdit.v24.1.Core.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.RichEdit.Core, DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

float? Position { get; set; }

VB.NET

Property Position As Single?

Property Value

Type	Description
Nullable<Single>	A text position (from -3168 to 3168) relative to the base line or null (Nothing in Visual Basic) for a mixture of values. A positive number raises the text, and a negative number lowers it.

Remarks

The code sample below shows how to raise the text by 2 points:

C#

using (RichEditDocumentServer wordProcessor = new RichEditDocumentServer())
{
    wordProcessor.LoadDocument("Document.docx");
    Document document = wordProcessor.Document;
    CharacterProperties characterProperties = document.BeginUpdateCharacters(document.Paragraphs[1].Range);
    characterProperties.Position = 2;
    document.EndUpdateCharacters(characterProperties);
}

VB.NET

  Using wordProcessor As New RichEditDocumentServer()
    wordProcessor.LoadDocument("Document.docx")
    Dim document As Document = wordProcessor.Document
    Dim characterProperties As CharacterProperties = document.BeginUpdateCharacters(document.Paragraphs(1).Range)
    characterProperties.Position = 2
    document.EndUpdateCharacters(characterProperties)
  End Using

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippet (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contains a reference to the Position property.

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C#

word-document-api-examples/CS/CodeExamples/FormattingActions.cs#L76

// Raise the text by 2 points.
cp.Position = 2;

VB.NET

word-document-api-examples/VB/CodeExamples/FormattingActions.vb#L64

' Raise the text by 2 points.
cp.Position = 2
' Finalize to modify character formatting.