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Re: Default font in Mathematica 9

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• Subject: [mg129016] Re: Default font in Mathematica 9
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 01:32:36 -0500 (EST)
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Good to know that Default_8.0.nb is there. And, also under OS X, I can 
use choose it as stylesheet -- although it takes a lot of navigation to 
get there.

But how does one add it to the Format > Stylesheet menu list? I uses 
File > Install to do so and even restarted Mathematica 9 with a clean 
cache (using Shift + Cmd at startup). But Default_8.0 is still not 
listed there.

P.S. Docs say you can reset Mathematica's preferences to their default 
value by holding down Shift+Ctrl during startup. But under OS X that 
doesn't even allow Mathematica to open! It just brings up the context 
menu for Mathematica.app.

On Dec 7, 2012, at 1:39 AM, George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com> 
wrote:

> I was poking around in the Package contents (OS X -- I am sure windows 
has a similar mechanism), and found a file called Default_8.0.nb. I did 
a diff with the default that shipped with version 8 and found that it 
was the same.
>
> Perhaps WRI anticipated this issue and included this 'plan b'.
>
> It is also good to learn that Arial made its appearance in the final 
beta.  I was a beta tester and completely missed it.
>
> george
>
> On Dec 6, 2012, at 4:55 AM, Fred Simons <f.h.simons at tue.nl> wrote:
>
>> The new stylesheet default.nb turned up in the last beta release. I 
was
>> heavily shocked observing this. All my course material, using the old

>> default style, now looks terrible. I wrote an angry reaction to wri,

>> suggesting that at least users should have the choice using  the old 
or
>> the new default.nb, but never got a response.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> Op 5-12-2012 9:10, steve at smc.vnet.net schreef:
>>> On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:09 AM, David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Dec 3, 4:03 am, Brendan Godfrey <brendan.godf... at ieee.org> 
wrote:
>>>>> Mathematica 8 had Times as its default font.  Mathematica 9 uses
>>> Courier.  How do I change it back to Times?  Thanks.
>>>> Which default font are you referring to?  The font for Text cells?
>>>> There are many different fonts depending on which type of cell you 
are
>>>> considering.
>>>>
>>>> One thing that has changed in a significant way in M9 is that the
>>>> fonts and styling for the default style sheet Default.nb are very
>>>> different than in V8 and all versions before.  For example the 
default
>>>> font for Text cells is now Arial rather than Times, and the Section
>>>> cells now have a larger font size and are now colored orange rather
>>>> than black.
>>>>
>>>> As a general opinion, I feel that this is the wrong design
>>>> choice....
>>> Agreement here!
>>>
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Murray Eisenberg                                    
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• References:
  • Re: Default font in Mathematica 9
    • From: David Reiss <dbreiss@gmail.com>
  • Re: Default font in Mathematica 9
    • From: George Woodrow III <georgevw3@mac.com>