Re: Usage Messages Have Become a High Tech Kludge
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- Subject: [mg103826] Re: Usage Messages Have Become a High Tech Kludge
- From: Harutyun Amirjanyan <amirjanyan at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:50:40 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <hahsjn$kf$1@smc.vnet.net>
usage messages and command completion in Mathematica are really poorly designed and WRI should work really hard to make something like intelisence in visual studio probably the reason they are not doing this, is a good help system, which reduces need in usage messages >1) For many of us the font size in usage messages is too small and, worse, >non-adjustable. Most cells can be magnified by using Alt - +. This does not >work for displayed usage messages. I did try changing the FontSize for "MSG" >in my style sheet but that didn't work either. Magnifying the entire >notebook is an option but a local solution would be much better. I tried this with ParkStyle adding cell Cell[StyleData["InfoCell"],FontSize->18] changes fontsize of button grid displayed by ?? "*Goal" adding cell Cell[StyleData["MSG"], FontSize->18] changes fontsize. but it affects all messages (usage, error) which isn't good I think it would be better if "MSG" style wasn't used at all and only "PrintUsage" and "Message" were used. by the way does anybody understand how Cell [contents,"style1","style2"] works? I couldn't find anything in help.