Re: magnification issue
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- Subject: [mg22630] Re: magnification issue
- From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:10:47 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
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On 14 Mar 2000 topquark at my-deja.com wrote: > Regarding the options browser and help browser menu text, I'm very > puzzled why I can't change the font size here, especially given that > the HTML version of the Mathematica book available on Wolfram's website > has very readable text in the menu, although ironically suffers from > the opposite problem, namely that the actual text for a given topic is > illegibly small for math formulas (since presumably the math is stored > as GIF image files for the browser to be able to display them). Since > web browsers like IE can scale text within reasonable bounds the menu > titles can be made quite readable. Presumably there should be a way to > scale the menu text in Mathematica notebook *browsers* be they for help > or option inspection. > > Are the browsers themselves notebooks with style sheets whose > properties can be edited? The contents of the lower pane of the Help Browser window displays notebooks. The upper half -- which includes the category buttons, the search field, and the four scrollable panes -- are native interface controls that cannot be adjusted by the user. The only exception is under the X Window system, which allows fine granularity adjustments to just about any user interface object. With a little bit of X resource finesse, you can set the fonts in the upper half to any font choice that is available to the X server. -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.