Re: Changing the default Input font
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- Subject: [mg36009] Re: [mg35987] Changing the default Input font
- From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 03:34:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Jonathan Rockmann wrote: > Does anyone know how to change the default (ASCII?) Input font which is > used by Mathematica on every Input line to something easier for me to > read like, Arial? > > After getting some excellent advice on working with style sheets, I have > been able to configure the front end substantially but am still unable > to change what is, however universal, still a difficult font for me to > read. Front end style sheets include prototypes for Mathematica format types like StandardForm and InputForm. You will find these settings near the bottom of the style sheet notebook. If a cell style is configured to use a format type, then the settings in the format type protoptype cell will override the settings in the cell style itself. For example, suppose you change the FontFamily option value in Input to "Arial". By default, the Input style uses the StandardForm format type. The prototype for StandardForm includes the FontFamily option with its value set to "Courier". To ensure that Arial is used, you need to change the FontFamily option in the StandardForm prototype cell. Bear in mind that this will cause all cell styles, such as Output, that use StandardForm to inherit this font as well. Another caveat for you is that some format types (InputForm and OutputForm, for example), assume a monospaced font is being used to display text. It is probably not a good idea to use Arial for these format types. Choose a monospaced sans serifed font like Lucida Console instead. -- P.J. Hinton User Interface Programmer paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.