Re: docs for Style, etc.
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- Subject: [mg103252] Re: [mg103185] docs for Style, etc.
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:29:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
Style can be used pretty much anywhere where an object translates directly into output (in technical terms, when an object will be "typeset" by the system). It's nearly as versatile as Tooltip. The only difference between the two I can think of is that Tooltip works in some visualization functions like, for example, wrapping a Tooltip around an individual value of ListPlot, where support for Style has not been added. Frankly, though, there's no reason we shouldn't have done this...seems like a good idea to me. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:19:03 -0400 (EDT), Murray Eisenberg wrote: > There are some function in Mathematica, such as Style, that may be used > in a variety of situations. Is there some way to find out from the > documentation, e.g., just what sort of expressions expr may be used as > the first argument to Style? > > I ask because a recent posting here by David Park used: > > Style[Line[...], Antialiasing->False]] > > Until I saw that, I don't think I knew that a Line expression could be > used like that in Style. And I don't even find such a use of Style on > the reference page for Line! (But it does appear on the reference page > for Antialiasing.)