Re: Noob Question re Setting Default Fonts
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- Subject: [mg102287] Re: [mg102269] Noob Question re Setting Default Fonts
- From: Andrew J Fortune <andrewfortune at bigpond.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 04:27:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi again David, This mainly worked. What didn't work was that I didn't get a new entry in Menu/Format/Stylesheet. Also, it would be good if you could change the font family for Input and Output cells, because that is mainly what I want to change. regards, Andrew David Park wrote: > 1) Lookup Stylesheets in the Documentation Center for general guidance. > > 2) Evaluate $UserBaseDirectory in a notebook to find your private > Mathematica folders. Go to SystemFiles, FrontEnd, StyleSheets. There may or > may not be anything there but, in any case, this is where your new > StyleSheet notebook will eventually be placed by the Mathematica system. > > 3) Start Mathematica and look at the new Untitled notebook. If you check > Menu/Format/Stylesheet you should see that Default is checked. That is the > current Stylesheet the notebook is using. > > 4) Use Menu/Edit Stylesheet. This will bring up a "Style Definitions for > Untitled-n" notebook. With this you can change the styles for the notebook, > if you only want it for a particular notebook, or install the stylesheet so > it could be used for all your style sheets. > > 5) Type an Input cell into the Untitled notebook, say Sin[3 x], and return > to the Definitions notebook. > > 6) Suppose you want to change the Input font and font size. On the "Choose a > style" drop down menu choose Input. This creates a cell in the style sheet > notebook. Select it, by the bracket on the right, and then use Menu/Format > to pick a new font size, say 14. When you click it you will see the > Definition style change and also the Input statement in the Untitled > notebook. > > 7) In the Definition notebook use Shift-Ctrl-E to toggle to the underlying > Mathematica expression. You will see that "FontSize->14" has been added to > the definition. Editing that expression is a alternative, and somewhat more > general method for changing a cell style. > > 8) As far as I can tell it is not possible to change the font family for > Input and Output cells. It changes in the Definitions, but not in the > notebook. Mathematica does a lot of syntax coloring on Input statements and > Output statements can become Input statements and that may have something to > do with it. (Maybe someone will correct me on that.) But you can change the > font family with Text cells. > > 9) A particularly useful change is the following: Put a Section Heading > before your cells in the Untitled notebook. Choose Section in the > Definitions drop down. Use Shift-Ctrl-E on the resulting cell and add > ", ShowGroupOpener->True". > > 10) To save your new style sheet click the Install Stylesheet button. Give > it a name, say TestStyleSheet, and Finish. Look in the file folder I > mentioned in (2). The style sheet should be there. Look in > Menu/Format/Stylesheet. It should also be listed there. > > (11) Close Mathematica and restart. You will be in a Default style sheet. > Type a heading and some Input/Output and a Text cell. Then use > Menu/Format/Stylesheet/TestStyleSheet and you will be using your new style > sheet. > > > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ > > > From: Andrew J Fortune [mailto:andrewfortune at bigpond.com] > > > Hi all, > > I am a new Mathematica user. I don't like some of the default fonts, in > particular Input, Output and Text. I have been trying, without success, > to work out how to change the default settings. > > Any help appreciated. > > Thanks and regards, > Andrew J Fortune, > Melbourne, > Australia > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.42/2278 - Release Date: 08/02/09 17:56:00 > >