Re: Line and Text in Graphics
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg34885] Re: Line and Text in Graphics
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:15:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi,
because the inconsitence is that Dashing, Thickness, Color are *not*
options to Line[], Point[] ...
The TextStyle option is the correct way in the spirit of Mathematica's
language.
Regards
Jens
aes wrote:
>
> Confusing inconsistencies in syntax make Mathematica (or any other
> software program) hard to use.
>
> For example, I can say
>
> Graphics[ { Thickness[--], Dashing[--], Line[--], Line[--] } ]
>
> So why can't I say
>
> Graphics[ { FontWeight[--], FontSize[--], Text[--], Text[--] } ]
>
> or something akin to this?