Re: Re: Changing style of autogenerated messages in Mathematica 7
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- Subject: [mg103304] Re: [mg103285] Re: Changing style of autogenerated messages in Mathematica 7
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:11:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:01:19 -0400 (EDT), Alexey wrote: > On 12 Sep, 15:27, Harutyun Amirjanyan <amirjan... at gmail.com> wrote: > >> to change any styling in Mathematica you should modify stylesheet >> using Cell->Show Expression on any message cell you'll find it depends >> on "Message", "MSG" styles which are defined in core.nb. you can >> modify these in default.nb or better make your own stylesheet >> there is a good introduction to this on David Parks >> pagehttp://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/Mathematica.html >> > Thank you for the hint. I have found that in Mathematica 7 the default > font size for "Message" and "MSG" is 11 instead of 10 used in version > 5.2. And FontFamily is set to > CurrentValue["PanelFontFamily"] which is Tahoma in my case (in v.5 > Courier was used that looks much better for my eyes). I have read the > David Park's StyleSheetNotes and tried to use his methods for > modifying Core.nb but I have failed: the original StyleSheets does not > contain the drop-down button "Choose a Style" and do not allow any > changes. So, there additional information is required. > > As I understand, It would be better to set CurrentValue > ["PanelFontFamily"] to Courier instead of setting FontFamily to > Courier in these particular cases (I think Courier looking much > readable than Tahoma at all). Is there a way to do this? > >> I've also modified these styles, and can send my stylesheet if you >> interested > I am interested. But what is the difference? No, you want to set FontFamily to Courier. CurrentValue["PanelFontFamily"] is querying a property of your system. The only way to change it is to change a system-wide setting that would affect how every single application appears. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc.