Re: Inconsistent syntax for Row and Column?
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- Subject: [mg92773] Re: [mg92728] Inconsistent syntax for Row and Column?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:16:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Indeed this seems to be an oversight, as Options[Column] includes
BaseStyle whereas Options[Row] does not. A work-around is to use Grid:
Grid[{{"hello", "world"}}, BaseStyle -> {Blue, FontFamily -> "Times"}]
michael.p.croucher at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi all
>
> If I want to format all of the Elements in a column such that they are
> displayed in the Times New Roman font and coloured blue then I might
> do this:
>
> Column[{"hello", "world"}, BaseStyle -> {Blue, FontFamily -> "Times"}]
>
> Which works nicely. Since a row is just the transpose of a column you
> might expect the same syntax to work with Row (I certainly did) but
>
> Row[{"hello", "world"}, BaseStyle -> {Blue, FontFamily -> "Times"}]
>
> gives the following output:
>
> (Row[{"hello", "world"}, BaseStyle -> {RGBColor[0, 0, 1], FontFamily -
>> "Times"}])
>
> Since the second argument in Row defines a separator. Would it be
> more reasonable for these two functions to have similar syntax? Of
> course one solution to the row formatting problem is to do
>
> Style[Row[{"hello", "world"}], {FontFamily -> "Times", Blue}]
>
> but it baffles me as to why these two functions were set up with such
> different syntax.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>
>
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- Inconsistent syntax for Row and Column?