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The short answer is that you have specified too much of a gap. The CIRC1 shape at a scale of 0.04 is 0.08 in diameter. So the space (negative distance) should be 0.08, and you have specified 0.05+0.05=0.10 which gives the 0.02 gap. I suspect you are just beginning to learn about linetype definitions, but to correct your code, I would amalgamate the two line sections and also the two space sections into one each. You do not need an x dimension because the insertion point of CIRC1 is at the left hand quadrant point. This would give the code line to be:- A, .4,[CIRC1,ltypeshp.shx,s=.04],-0.08