Re: Re: On order of options to Graphics
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- Subject: [mg70348] Re: [mg70323] Re: On order of options to Graphics
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:06:32 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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As I said in my posting to this thread, the documentation DOES expliclty give the order required! Nasser Abbasi wrote: > "Bill Rowe" <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:egi1os$j9l$1 at smc.vnet.net... > >>> It seems more logical to me to write {Primitive,Directive}. > >> This seems totally illogical to me. This is asking Mathematica >> to draw a primitive before the directives on how to draw that >> primitive are given. Why would you expect this to work? Clearly, >> all Mathematica can do is draw the primitive with default directives. > > I am looking at this from the point of view that it is more normal to say : > > "Draw a line with thickness 2 and color red". > > Rather than say : > > "Draw with thickness 2 and color red a line" > > Which is what Mathematica wants. That is why I said the order is not logical > to me. > > Any way, This is not a problem, I'll get used to it. > > But I'll be happy if Mathematica documentation can explicitly give the order > required and not leave it for the user to guess or to have to experiment or > read other books in order to determine the correct calling signature. > > I do not think is something too much to ask from the help system to provide. > > Nasser > > -- 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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- From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
- Re: On order of options to Graphics