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Re: Style of inserted Text via Drawing Tools

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  • Subject: [mg79136] Re: Style of inserted Text via Drawing Tools
  • From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:36:44 -0400 (EDT)
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  • Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>

Peter Breitfeld wrote:
> (Version: Mathematica 6.0.1 on Mac OS X)
> 
> I have a private style sheet, which draws a line at the left of an
> output cell. Now I found out the following:
> 
> When I Plot a graphics then open the Drawing Tools palette of the
> graphics menu choose text an start typing, there seems to open an inline
> input cell but with the "output bar" on the left. The font has changed
> to Times, whereas my default for inline input is Palatino.
> 
> If I look at the expression with Cell/Show Expression I see, that there
> has been created an InputBox[Cell["my Text"],coords].
> 
> Now I wonder how to get rid of this behaviour. Can I change some style
> definitions in my stylefile?
> Should I add Properties to InputBox?

After using the Drawing Tools, you can select the cell containing the 
graphic that you edited and change it to any style you like -- Text, 
Output, whatever.

-- 
Helen Read
University of Vermont


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