Re: magnify Help Browser
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg37330] Re: [mg37298] magnify Help Browser
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye at attbi.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 02:57:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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- Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu
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No, a standard Windows magnifier does NOT seem to work here -- the student is already using a (commercial) magnifier, ZoomText, at my university's Assistive Technologies Center. The problem is that you have to begin with a high quality, pre-magnified page; otherwise the fonts come out looking very "dotty". If you use Mathematica's built-in magnifier in a notebook, it does provide enlarged, fairly smooth fonts. Then when you zoom further -- and this student has to magnify things really large -- the resulting text is still readable. David Park wrote: > Murray, > > On my Windows98 OS there is a Magnifier utility, activated by > > Start\Programs\Accessories\Accessibility\Magnifier > > It splits the screen into two panels and provides a magnified view in the > top panel of the pointer region in the lower panel. It magnifies anything on > the screen, including all portions of the Mathematica Help. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > > From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murraye at attbi.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > > I have a student using Mathematica 4.2 (under Windows) who has major > visual impairment. With the aid of a standard utility (ZoomText) > together with Mathematica's built-in magnification, he is able to read > ordinary Mathematica notebooks. But not the all-important Help Browser. > > How can one mangify the Help Browser window -- not just the main panel > but especially the rows of buttons at the top and the 4 panes between > the buttons and the main panel? > > -- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street > Amherst, MA 01375 > > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01375