Re: Re: Re: format Text in graphics
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- Subject: [mg42302] Re: [mg42274] Re: [mg42260] Re: [mg42251] format Text in graphics
- From: Gianluca Gorni <gorni at dimi.uniud.it>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
One more tip for anyone seriously into formulas in graphics:
if TraditionalForm does not arrange your formula exactly as
you have in mind, and you are willing to spend some time to
get it right, then you may do as follows:
1) type the formula as you want it inside an inline formula in
a text cell (assuming you know how to do that; look e.g. at
Edit>Expression Input and various palettes);
2) select the resulting cell, and then Format>Show Expression;
3) this way you can peek at how the Boxes are arranged;
4) reproduce the box structure (or at least the problematic part)
inside your Text, or Label, or whatever;
5) don't forget to wrap it into DisplayForm, and to use HoldForm
to prevent evaluation, if necessary.
If anyone knows a more straightforward way I'd be very glad
to hear it!
I wish there was a way to type inline formulas within an input
cell.
Gianluca Gorni
> From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
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> Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg42302] [mg42274] Re: [mg42260] Re: [mg42251] format Text in graphics
>
> Thanks to all who have replied so far -- and please keep the answers
> coming! Perhaps we will at last see a truly simple, straigntforward,
> robust, and correct way to accomplish what seems such a basic task for
> annotating graphics!
>
> So far, the solution below -- with the proposer's subsequent (privately
> sent) amendment to wrap y and f[x] with HoldForm -- seems to be the only
> one that actually works in the sense I indicated.
>
> There still seems to be no general solution that would also properly
> format, in conventional form, other math expressions as Text in graphics
> output.
>
>
> Gianluca Gorni wrote:
>> 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>
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>>> Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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>>> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
>>> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>>> Subject: [mg42302] [mg42274] [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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>>
>>
>>
>
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> Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
> Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
> Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
> University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
> 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
> Amherst, MA 01003-9305
>