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Re: Re: Re: typesetting fractions

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  • From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:08:07 -0500 (EST)
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I didn't reply to this thread earlier because I figured one of the usual 
experts would pick it up and run with it, but it appears not.  By reading 
Selwyn's answer, I think he knows how to do this but decided to vent about 
the method rather than explain it.

In the Option Inspector is an option called ScriptSizeMultipliers.  This, 
combined with the ScriptMinSize, determines sizing for fractions and 
scripts (sorry, Selwyn).  The easiest way to do what Murray and Sabit want 
is to set the ScriptSizeMultipliers option to 1.  This could be set at the 
notebook or global level, as you feel appropriate, or wrapped individually 
around fractions if you don't want sub/superscripts to pick up the option 
value.

To answer Sabit's second question, select the bracket of the cell you'd 
like to change, and use the Option Inspector to set the SingleLetterItalics 
option to False at the selection scope.

Sincerely,

John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.


On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:58:02 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> I quite agree that this is an annoyance with Mahematica's typsetting of
> mathematics.
>
> An underlying difficulty is that there is no separate notion of "display
> math" -- mathematical expressions displayed on separate lines -- as
> opposed to math within normal paragraphs of text.  This may be an
> unfortunate front-end design limitation.
>
> The problem is reminiscent of the same problem in LaTeX, where in-line,
> built-up fractions (and other constructs) have their components small.
> But in LaTeX, there is an option (which one needs to apply to each
> instance) to make such in-line math "displaystyle", which enlarges the
> components to the same large size as if they were in a display.
>
> I devoutly wish there were such a capability in Mathematica -- whether a
> per-instance option as with LaTeX, or a global option for a notebook.
>
> Selwyn Hollis wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that the size of fractions is determined by the
>> same option that determines the size of subscripts and superscripts,
>> which is highly unfortunate. I could be wrong about this; if so I'd
>> love to find out. I find it a major pain in the neck always to have to
>> increase the size of fractions manually. Maybe this is an improvement
>> we can hope for in version 6.0.
>>
>> -----
>> Selwyn Hollis
>> http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
>> (edit reply-to to reply)
>>
>> On Jan 14, 2004, at 1:26 AM, sabit wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to do some typesetting with mathematica. I noticed that
>>> in
>>> some styles fractions are set in reduced point size. What is the
>>> option that would fix this? I want both denominator and the numerator
>>> set in the same size as the text.
>>>
>>> Also I have the single letter italic enabled for cells where I have
>>> the equations but in the cells where there is a lot of text I don't
>>> want this option. Now I copy and paste a previous cell and use it as
>>> new cell but I am sure there is a better way, probably with styles.
>>> Wolfram site lists two documents about typesetting but they are not
>>> available to download. Does anyone know a good reference for
>>> tpesetting with mathematica?



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