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This View icon is provides a plotting specification for imported text. It specifies the text box positioning in the plot frame of the Display Window / paper sheet. This is used to provide plot frames that can be filled with user defined text (e.g. container for user-defined text boxes, and in the future will also serve as a container for imported images. Multiple Annotation View icons can be placed in a plot, allowing, for example, a means to provide comments on complex plots).
The user text is provided by means of a Text Plotting icons to icon, which can be dropped in the a plot frames frame containing this type of view.

The Annotation View icon can also be used for layout purposes , e.g. - if no Text Plotting icons are icon is dropped then an empty box will be created in the Display Window / paper sheet.
In fact, this This icon combines the functionality of three Metview 3 Views: TextView, EmptyView and ImportView (to be implemented).

For further details on the role and usage of View icons in the visualisation process, please see Analysis Views.

The macro language equivalent is is annotationview().