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Re: Re: Re: Re: format Text in graphics

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  • Subject: [mg42317] Re: [mg42287] Re: [mg42274] Re: [mg42260] Re: [mg42251] format Text in graphics
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:22:04 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Do I understand correctly?  You are suggesting treating something like

   Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2Pi}, Epilog -> {Text["y=f(x)", {Pi, 1/2}]}];

by using the Format menu in the front end to format, as one desires, 
individual symbols.

If so, that will work perfectly -- except in my application! What I'm 
doing is creating code in Mathematica that gets pasted into a software 
tool that automatically generates .jsp files for use with 
webMathematica.  (Perhaps I should have said that.)  And the difficulty 
is that what gets pasted in will, of course, be the InputForm of the 
treated Text expression -- which can become just the sort of dense, 
essentially unreadable (at least by me) code such as you show, with all 
the escaped characters, etc.

Omega Consulting wrote:
> I think there is a simpler way to do this. There is a nice feature that 
> styles applied inside strings will be used in the graph. Start with a plain 
> string.
> 
> Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2Pi},
>      Epilog -> {Text["y=f(x)", {Pi, 1/2}]}];
> 
> Then select characters inside the string and add font features (italics, 
> fontfamily, etc.). The following is a step in the right direction. (It's 
> pretty ugly here, but paste it in the frontend and it should look fine.)
> 
> Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2Pi},
>      Epilog -> {Text["\!\(\*
> StyleBox[\"y\",\nFontFamily->\"Times New Roman\",\nFontSlant->\"Italic\"]\)\!\
> \(\*
> StyleBox[\"=\",\nFontFamily->\"Times New Roman\"]\)\!\(\*
> StyleBox[\"f\",\nFontFamily->\"Times New Roman\",\nFontSlant->\"Italic\"]\)\!\
> \(\*
> StyleBox[\"(\",\nFontFamily->\"Times New Roman\"]\)\!\(\*
> StyleBox[\"x\",\nFontFamily->\"Times New Roman\",\nFontSlant->\"Italic\"]\)\!\
> \(\*
> StyleBox[\")\",\nFontFamily->\"Times New Roman\"]\)", {Pi, 1/2}]}];
> 
> At 04:36 AM 6/26/2003, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> 
>>Thanks to all who have replied so far -- and please keep the answers
>>coming!  Perhaps we will at last see a truly simple, straigntforward,
>>robust, and correct way to accomplish what seems such a basic task for
>>annotating graphics!
>>
>>So far, the solution below -- with the proposer's subsequent (privately
>>sent) amendment to wrap y and f[x] with HoldForm -- seems to be the only
>>one that actually works in the sense I indicated.
>>
>>There still seems to be no general solution that would also properly
>>format, in conventional form, other math expressions as Text in graphics
>>output.
>>
>>
>>Gianluca Gorni wrote:
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>I do it this way:
>>>
>>>Format[myEqual[x_, y_], TraditionalForm] :=
>>>  DisplayForm[RowBox[{x, "=", y}]];
>>>
>>>Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2Pi},
>>>    Epilog -> {Text[TraditionalForm[myEqual[y, f[x]]], {Pi, 1/2}]}];
>>>
>>>Good luck,
>>>
>>>              Gianluca Gorni
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
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> 
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> 
>>To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>>
>>>To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>>>
>>>
>>>>Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
>>>>Reply-To: murray at math.umass.edu
>>>>Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>>>>Subject: [mg42317] [mg42287] [mg42274] [mg42260] [mg42251] format Text in graphics
>>>>
>>>>What value of Epilog in a Plot expression will properly format
>>>>
>>>>y = f(x)
>>>>
>>>>in conventional mathematical style?  That is, the y, f, and x should be
>>>>italicized but the = and parentheses should not.
>>>>
>>>>Some things that do NOT work:
>>>>
>>>>Epilog -> Text[TraditionalForm[y = f(x)], {0.5, 0.5}]
>>>>
>>>>(* that just sets y to be f(x) and then displays f(x) *)
>>>>
>>>>textForm[txt_] := StyleForm[txt, FontFamily -> Times]
>>>>mathForm[txt_] := StyleForm[txt, FontFamily -> Times, FontSlant -> Italic]
>>>>
>>>>Epilog -> Text[mathForm["y "], textForm["="], mathForm[" f(x)"], {0.5 0.5}]
>>>>
>>>>(* SOMETHING like the preceding should work, but I don't see how to
>>>>combine the three StyleForm results *)
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Reply to "REPLY TO" address and NOT to the "FROM" address!!
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>>>>
>>>>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            fax   413 545-1801
>>>>Amherst, MA 01003-9305
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>--
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>>
>>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            fax   413 545-1801
>>Amherst, MA 01003-9305
> 
> 
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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            fax   413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305


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