diff --git a/doc/xschem_man/component_property_syntax.html b/doc/xschem_man/component_property_syntax.html
index bbef4ed8..16b48996 100644
--- a/doc/xschem_man/component_property_syntax.html
+++ b/doc/xschem_man/component_property_syntax.html
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ name="mchanged_name" model=\"nmos\" w="20u" l="3u" m="10"
   <p> A <kbd>hide=true</kbd> attribute will only display the symbol bounding box.</p>
   <li><kbd>hide_texts</kbd></li>
   <p> A <kbd>hide_texts=true</kbd> attribute will hide all symbol texts.</p>
-  <li><kbd>text_&lt;n&gt;_size</kbd></li>
+  <li><kbd>text_size_&lt;n&gt;</kbd></li>
   <p> This attribute sets the size of symbol text item number <kbd>n</kbd>. This allows
    instance based symbol text sizing.</p>
   <li><kbd>highlight</kbd></li>
diff --git a/src/actions.c b/src/actions.c
index cec627af..9ad87c2f 100644
--- a/src/actions.c
+++ b/src/actions.c
@@ -808,42 +808,42 @@ int set_inst_flags(xInstance *inst)
       my_strdup2(_ALLOC_ID_, &(inst->lab), get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"lab",0));
     }
   }
+
   if(!strboolcmp(get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"hide",0), "true"))
     inst->flags |= HIDE_INST;
+  if(!strboolcmp(get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"hide_texts",0), "true"))
+    inst->flags |= HIDE_SYMBOL_TEXTS;
               
   ptr = get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"spice_ignore",0);
   if(!strcmp(ptr, "short"))
     inst->flags |= SPICE_SHORT;
   else if(!strboolcmp(ptr, "true") || !strcmp(ptr, "open"))
     inst->flags |= SPICE_IGNORE;
-
+  
   ptr = get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"verilog_ignore",0);
   if(!strcmp(ptr, "short"))
     inst->flags |= VERILOG_SHORT;
   else if(!strboolcmp(ptr, "true") || !strcmp(ptr, "open"))
     inst->flags |= VERILOG_IGNORE;
-
+  
   ptr = get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"vhdl_ignore",0);
   if(!strcmp(ptr, "short"))
     inst->flags |= VHDL_SHORT;
   else if(!strboolcmp(ptr, "true") || !strcmp(ptr, "open"))
     inst->flags |= VHDL_IGNORE;
-
+  
   ptr = get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"tedax_ignore",0);
   if(!strcmp(ptr, "short"))
     inst->flags |= TEDAX_SHORT;
   else if(!strboolcmp(ptr, "true") || !strcmp(ptr, "open"))
     inst->flags |= TEDAX_IGNORE;
-
+  
   ptr = get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"lvs_ignore",0);
   if(!strcmp(ptr, "short"))
     inst->flags |= LVS_IGNORE_SHORT;
   else if(!strboolcmp(ptr, "true") || !strcmp(ptr, "open"))
     inst->flags |= LVS_IGNORE_OPEN;
 
-  if(!strboolcmp(get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"hide_texts",0), "true"))
-    inst->flags |= HIDE_SYMBOL_TEXTS;
-
   if(!strboolcmp(get_tok_value(inst->prop_ptr,"highlight",0), "true"))
     inst->flags |= HILIGHT_CONN;
 
diff --git a/src/draw.c b/src/draw.c
index c1dc925d..a64b556f 100644
--- a/src/draw.c
+++ b/src/draw.c
@@ -420,17 +420,21 @@ void get_sym_text_size(int inst, int text_n, double *xscale, double *yscale)
   const char *ts;
   double size;
   int sym_n = xctx->inst[inst].ptr;
-  xText *txtptr;
 
   if(sym_n >= 0 && xctx->sym[sym_n].texts > text_n) {
-    txtptr =  &(xctx->sym[sym_n].text[text_n]);
-    my_snprintf(attr, S(attr), "text_%d_size", text_n);
-    ts = get_tok_value(xctx->inst[inst].prop_ptr, attr, 0);
+    if(strstr(xctx->inst[inst].prop_ptr, "text_size_")) {
+      my_snprintf(attr, S(attr), "text_size_%d", text_n);
+      ts = get_tok_value(xctx->inst[inst].prop_ptr, attr, 0);
+    } else {
+      xctx->tok_size = 0;
+    }
     if(xctx->tok_size) {
       size = atof(ts);
       *xscale = size;
       *yscale = size;
     } else {
+      xText *txtptr;
+      txtptr =  &(xctx->sym[sym_n].text[text_n]);
       *xscale = txtptr->xscale;
       *yscale = txtptr->yscale;
     }
diff --git a/src/token.c b/src/token.c
index d613e25f..58751887 100644
--- a/src/token.c
+++ b/src/token.c
@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ const char *get_tok_value(const char *s,const char *tok, int with_quotes)
   static char *translated_tok = NULL;
 
   xctx->tok_size = 0;
+  
   if(s==NULL) {
     if(tok == NULL) {
       my_free(_ALLOC_ID_, &result);
@@ -450,6 +451,7 @@ const char *get_tok_value(const char *s,const char *tok, int with_quotes)
     }
     return "";
   }
+  if(!tok || !strstr(s, tok)) return "";
   /* dbg(0, "get_tok_value(): looking for <%s> in <%.30s>\n",tok,s); */
   if( size == 0 ) {
     sizetok = size = CADCHUNKALLOC;