Re: Another stylesheet question
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- Subject: [mg86964] Re: Another stylesheet question
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:19:32 -0500 (EST)
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Jerry schrieb: > I went thru the stylesheet tutorial that David Park kindly > made available. I was successful in making the new > stylesheet he proposed. But I'd like to do something he > didn't cover (that I could find). > > I'd like to simply change the size of the text in the "text" > style (the cell type found in the little box at upper left > in a notebook). I can reformat the text cell by cell but I'd > like it to just use a proper text size to start with from > default.nb. I've given up trying to do this in Options > Inspector. I've looked thru it forever and can't find any > way to change text size. And if I did, would that change > what's in the default.nb stylesheet? > > So I did Format/ Edit Stylesheet, selected the text style, > to modify, then changed it to a new size and color via the > Format Menu and then *Save As* default.nb. Well, that > didn't work -- Mathematica wouldn't even run on restart. I had to > restore default.nb from my backup copy. Even though the Edit > Stylesheet window says it is using inherited base > definitions from default.nb, the file it makes is tiny and > apparently leaves out items needed for Mathematica to run. > > So I'm missing the big picture -- can someone please tell me > how to modify default.nb -- or make Mathematica use a different > stylesheet on startup? Thanks. > Hi Jerry, You should give the altered notebook a new name, eg. jerrystyle.nb and place it somewhere in $UserBaseDirectory/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Stylesheets. Your style will now appear in the Format/Stylesheet selection. In the options inspector search for DefaultStyleDefinitions and set them to the full path to your new stylesheet to make it the default. Gruss Peter -- ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de