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Re: How change font size of Graph vertex labels?

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  • Subject: [mg117223] Re: How change font size of Graph vertex labels?
  • From: Helen Read <readhpr at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:07:24 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <ilcqeh$im9$1@smc.vnet.net>

On 3/11/2011 4:36 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> I want to make the "Names" labels of vertices in a Graph larger.  The
> "obvious" way...
>
>     Graph[{1, 2, 3},
>        {DirectedEdge[1, 2], DirectedEdge[2, 3], DirectedEdge[3, 1]},
>        {VertexLabels ->  {Placed["Name", Center]}, VertexSize ->  {Medium},
>        VertexStyle ->  {24}}]
>
> ...seems to do nothing. And replacing the option VertexStyle ->  {24}
> with the wordier VertexStyle ->  {FontSize->24} prevents Mathematica from
> evaluating the Graph expression at all.
>
> (Mathematica 8.0.1)


VertexStyle is for the vertices themselves. Use VertexLabelStyle to 
style the VertexLabels.



Graph[{1, 2, 3}, {DirectedEdge[1, 2], DirectedEdge[2, 3],
   DirectedEdge[3, 1]}, {VertexLabels -> {Placed["Name", Center]},
   VertexSize -> {Medium}, VertexStyle -> Red, VertexLabelStyle -> 24}]

-- 
Helen Read
University of Vermont


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