Re: Global Variables in Options?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg80674] Re: Global Variables in Options?
- From: Vince Virgilio <blueschi at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <far97o$41j$1@smc.vnet.net>
On Aug 26, 3:14 am, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Can Options contain global variables? (in 5.2)
>
> For example, can I do
>
> SetOptions[Plot, TextStyle->{FontSize->myFontSize}];
>
> (* with no numerical value yet assigned to myFontSize *)
>
> and then later on in the notebook write
>
> myFontSize = 14; Plot[ <<first plot>> ];
>
> myFontSize = 16; Plot[ <<second plot>> ];
>
> Or must I structure this as
>
> myFontSize = 14;
> SetOptions[Plot, TextStyle->{FontSize->myFontSize}];
> Plot[ <<first plot>> ];
>
> myFontSize = 16;
> SetOptions[Plot, TextStyle->{FontSize->myFontSize}];
> Plot[ <<second plot>> ];
I think options can contain global variables. To verify, use a delayed
rule ":>", instead of "->" for TextStyle in the first SetOptions
above.
Vince Virgilio