IfcPresentableText

Definition from IAI: The IfcPresentableText is a text string used to capture the content of a text literal for the purpose of presentation. The IfcPresentableText can include multiple lines of text, then the line feed character LF, 0x0A, should be used to separate lines.

> NOTE The non printable characters are converted within the standard exchange format ISO 10303-21 (STEP physical file format), commonly the \X\09 represents the TAB, and \X\0A the LF character.

> NOTE: The IfcPresentableText is an entity that had been adopted from ISO 10303, Industrial automation systems and integration—Product data representation and exchange, Part 46: Integrated generic resources: Visual presentation.

> NOTE Corresponding STEP name: presentable_text. Please refer to ISO/IS 10303-46:1994, p. 133 for the final definition of the formal standard.

> HISTORY New type in Release IFC2x Edition 2.

EXPRESS specification:

TYPE IfcPresentableText = STRING;
END_TYPE;