Type definition
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, for which 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 Entity adapted from presentable_text defined in ISO10303-46.
HISTORY New type in IFC2x2.