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Re: format Text in graphics

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• Subject: [mg42260] Re: [mg42251] format Text in graphics
• From: Gianluca Gorni <gorni at dimi.uniud.it>
• Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 05:50:06 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello!

I do it this way:

Format[myEqual[x_, y_], TraditionalForm] :=
  DisplayForm[RowBox[{x, "=", y}]];

Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2Pi},
    Epilog -> {Text[TraditionalForm[myEqual[y, f[x]]], {Pi, 1/2}]}];

Good luck,

              Gianluca Gorni

> From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
> Reply-To: murray at math.umass.edu
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg42260] [mg42251] format Text in graphics
> 
> What value of Epilog in a Plot expression will properly format
> 
> y = f(x)
> 
> in conventional mathematical style?  That is, the y, f, and x should be
> italicized but the = and parentheses should not.
> 
> Some things that do NOT work:
> 
> Epilog -> Text[TraditionalForm[y = f(x)], {0.5, 0.5}]
> 
> (* that just sets y to be f(x) and then displays f(x) *)
> 
> textForm[txt_] := StyleForm[txt, FontFamily -> Times]
> mathForm[txt_] := StyleForm[txt, FontFamily -> Times, FontSlant -> Italic]
> 
> Epilog -> Text[mathForm["y "], textForm["="], mathForm[" f(x)"], {0.5 0.5}]
> 
> (* SOMETHING like the preceding should work, but I don't see how to
> combine the three StyleForm results *)
> 
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