Expert: Scott Cook - 4/8/2009

Question
Hello Sir,
would you please help me out to resolve an issue I have with creation complex ltypes using "entmake" function, or you know the other way to handle this?
Here is my simple code:
(entmake
    (list
        '(0 . "LTYPE")
        '(100 . "AcDbSymbolTableRecord")
        '(100 . "AcDbLinetypeTableRecord")
        '(2 . "FFP")
        '(70 . 0)
        '(3 . "FIRE_FEEDER_PIPING ---- FFP -------- FFP ------")
        '(72 . 65)
        '(73 . 3)
        '(40 . 2.81)
        '(49 . 2.16)
        '(74 . 0)
        '(49 . -0.2)
        '(74 . 0)
        '(74 . 2)
        '(75 . 0)
        (cons 340(tblobjname "STYLE" "Simplex"))
        '(46 . 0.2)
        '(50 . 0.0)
        '(44 . -0.1)
        '(45 . -0.09)
        '(9 . "FFP")
        '(49 . -0.45)
        '(74 . 0)
     );list
)
Before using, please create "Simplex" textstyle so that it could be incorporated in the code.
The point is that the code itself works and it does creates ltype but the embedded text is missing. Why?
I would apprecciate if you could resolve it.
Thank you!

Answer
You can't put text in a line like that.  
There are 2 ways I currently know how to do this:
1. Write a routine that puts in the line, breaks out a chunk, and puts in the text.
2. Create a custom linetype style. This is a royal pain, so I have rarely done this.. but it would result in a linetype you can use with any autocad entity, line, circle, pline, etc. The procedure is documented in the customization guide, so I won't repeat it here.

There may be a way to do this with some sort of custom entity object, but that's more complex than #2.
Scott