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This View icon provides a 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 icon, which can be dropped in a plot frame containing this type of view.

The Annotation View icon can also be used for layout purposes - if no Text Plotting icon is dropped then an empty box will be created in the Display Window / paper sheet.
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 annotationview().