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3199de4951 Multiline attributes: read, draw and save their text (they were lost on save) (#854)
* Multiline attributes: read, draw and save their text

A multiline attribute (DXF attribute type 2, or 4 for a definition) has its
text as embedded MTEXT after its own groups (`101 Embedded Object`); its own
group 1 is empty. CADCraft read only the own groups, so the attribute drew
nothing, and a save wrote it back empty: its text was lost.

- `Attrib::multiline` keeps the multiline text; `text.value` holds its plain
  text, which ATTEDIT and the other value editors change; an edited value
  replaces the contents (`Attrib::multiline_text`).
- DXF read: ATTRIB and ATTDEF split at the marker; the MTEXT parsing is
  shared with MTEXT entities (`mtext_from`).
- Drawn as multiline text; ZOOM Extents counts it.
- DXF write (2007 and later; earlier versions get one line): attribute type,
  alignment point and the embedded MTEXT, only what differs from unrotated
  text, as AutoCAD writes it.
- INSERT and ATTSYNC give references the definition's multiline text placed
  with them; MOVE/ROTATE/SCALE, Properties rotation and scale, annotative
  scaling and FLATTEN carry it.
- Tests: synthetic multiline ATTDEF and ATTRIB (read, drawn, saved, edited,
  pre-2007 save, damaged embedded groups); engine INSERT, MOVE, ATTEDIT and
  ATTSYNC.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Multiline attributes: read MTEXT direction from its own groups (#667, as #834 does)

#834 moves these lines' fix into the MTEXT reader; the same fix in the shared
mtext_from keeps the two compatible.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cody Vogt <18035288+codyvogt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
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