(Ed. note:  The following is a portion of a dialog 
conducted on the Alacrity BBS, the official electronic bulletin board 
of the Seattle Area AutoCAD Users' Group.  For the Lisp code referred 
to, and much more, have your modem dial the BBS.)

Message 262                       DATE/TIME: 10/24/88 22:18

From:   BILL ENGER 
To:   ALL 
Subject:   leader.arc 
Folder: C, "Computer Aided Design"

I've just downloaded LEADER.ARC and tried it out so here's a quickie 
review.  The Lisp program works very well, as advertised in the program's 
comments.  The routine improves on AutoCAD's command in several ways, 
reducing the total number of picks necessary to draw a "legal" 
leader (it quits after drawing two segments, and the portion next 
to the text is automatically orthogonal).  The input of text after 
the lines are drawn is beautiful, switching to DTEXT and justifying 
automatically.  That is, if the leader is to the left of the text, 
the text entry is automatically switched to "right" justification. 
The DXF file it comes with, however, was useless to me as AutoCAD 
gave an "undefined block" error when I tried to DXFIN. That's 
no big loss; one simply has to draw one's own arrows and save them 
to your library. LEADER.LSP wants to use an arrow named "ARW1", 
but one can change that by editing the routine.  The DXF file supposedly 
contained five different arrow styles.  I recommend it, and I'm going 
to replace the AutoCAD command with it on my tablet!

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