Re: Size of a Text[] Graphics primitive
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- Subject: [mg21432] Re: Size of a Text[] Graphics primitive
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 00:20:42 -0500 (EST)
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Martin,
FrameBox might help - the frame adjusts to the text size:
Show[Graphics3D[
Text[FrameBox[
FormBox[StyleBox[MakeBoxes[\[Rho] = k r^2, TraditionalForm],
FontFamily -> "Times", FontSize -> 72], TraditionalForm]] //
DisplayForm, {0, 0, 0}]]]
You will find it at menu>Edit>Expression Input
Allan
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"Martin Stockhammer" <martin.stockhammer at visualanalysis.com> wrote in
message news:851e9m$49p at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to determine the size of a Text[] graphics primitive.
> The problem is, I want to draw a box around a text. But if I change the
> FontSize or even the
> FontFamily the text doesn't fit into the bounding box.
> Is it possible to do this?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
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> Martin Stockhammer
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> email: martin.stockhammer at visualanalysis.com
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