Text cell formating blues. LineBreakWithin, PageWidth, WordWrapping
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- Subject: [mg104084] Text cell formating blues. LineBreakWithin, PageWidth, WordWrapping
- From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:24:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
Hello V7 on windows XP. I normally use Mathematica just to do the computation/solving/verification part and then use Latex for actually writing my final homework and school report (I use Scientific workplace SW). Today I decided to give Mathematica another try to see if I can write the whole thing in one document, i.e. code and report. This way everything is in one place and no need to copy and paste stuff between Mathematica and SW. For the last hour and more I have been fighting with Mathematica to make Text cells look nice after exporting to PDF. i.e. i'd like lines to be of reasonably equal length. Mathematica break lines in places where I do not want it to, so I end up with text paragraphs that looks like the following on the screen and also in PDF (notice the extra spaces even to the left of some lines) xxxxxx xx, xxxxx xxxxxxxxx, xxxx So, this is what I tried, but I am about to give up, but I thought let me post this and may be there is simple solution that I am missing. First I turned OFF the LineBreakWithin (i.e. set it to false from automatic in the option inspector, did this for Global, Notebook and Selection). btw, why does an "X" still show up sometime the the left of an option name after I change its value? So, now my lines are very long and they are cut off when printing. I.e. they are like this xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx So, I select the text cell again, and did Format->WordWrapping->Wrap at paper width, but now it looks like xxxxxxx| text here not showing xxxxxxx| ...... xxxxxxx| ..... xxxxxxx| ..... and the rest of each line (if it longer than page width) is not visible on the screen and neither in PDF. Next I went to option inspector and set "PageWidth" to paperWidth (it was infinity) I could only change this option in Global and not in notebook or Selection (the field was grayed out there). ? But this did not help either. For lines that are too long, I can see the rest of the line on the screen and have to scroll horizontally to see it. I tried many other things. Does any one know what is the best combination of options/formatting to use so that text cells would looks the best for printing? and which font to use for best results? btw, I try to not hit carriage return when I write text in a text cell. Turning off LineBreakWithin seems to be the key option to play with, but I think I made things worst. I tried also to change the cell style to ItemParagraph from text, but this did not seem to help much. I would love to use Mathematica to typeset my reports, but I still find Latex output via SW easier to work with. ps. I use Report style sheet, but even default style sheet has the same problem. I put the current notebook here that I am trying these things on, so you can see the mess I made with the text cells http://12000.org/tmp/oct_16_2009/ thanks for any hints --Nasser