... text ... seems ... to use the line as a centre. so I wanted to try something cleverer, similar to the -align available with point label, align only works with points and on page 26 it gives me this size <number> ◃ line width (left and right sizes are set to one half of this value) r-size <number> ◃ size of the line to the right l-size <number> ◃ same to the left. Required for slope type. ...
I too have wanted to get 'line label's to -align top or -align bottom (wrt local line co-ords?), rather than the default -align centre. As far as I know -size <> etc scales the non-text features of the line and does not relate to text size in any way (but really I'm only guessing - I've almost never used it). My work-around has been to use 'point labels' as much as possible. These are of course, straight, and still have insertion point alignment issues if scrap sketches are not oriented consistent with respect to the 'rotate' used in the layout. Bruce