Re: Text cell formating blues. LineBreakWithin, PageWidth, WordWrapping
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- Subject: [mg104087] Re: Text cell formating blues. LineBreakWithin, PageWidth, WordWrapping
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:26:21 -0400 (EDT)
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" wrote: > Hello > > V7 on windows XP. > > I normally use Mathematica just to do the computation/solving/verification > part and then use Latex for actually writing my final homework and school > report (I use Scientific workplace SW). > > Today I decided to give Mathematica another try to see if I can write the > whole thing in one document, i.e. code and report. This way everything is in > one place and no need to copy and paste stuff between Mathematica and SW. > > For the last hour and more I have been fighting with Mathematica to make > Text cells look nice after exporting to PDF. i.e. i'd like lines to be of > reasonably equal length. > > Mathematica break lines in places where I do not want it to, so I end up > with text paragraphs that looks like the following on the screen and also in > PDF (notice the extra spaces even to the left of some lines) > > xxxxxx > xx, > xxxxx > xxxxxxxxx, > xxxx > > So, this is what I tried, but I am about to give up, but I thought let me > post this and may be there is simple solution that I am missing. > > First I turned OFF the LineBreakWithin (i.e. set it to false from automatic > in the option inspector, did this for Global, Notebook and Selection). btw, > why does an "X" still show up sometime the the left of an option name after > I change its value? > > So, now my lines are very long and they are cut off when printing. I.e. they > are like this > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > So, I select the text cell again, and did Format->WordWrapping->Wrap at > paper width, but now it looks like > > xxxxxxx| text here not showing > xxxxxxx| ...... > xxxxxxx| ..... > xxxxxxx| ..... > > and the rest of each line (if it longer than page width) is not visible on > the screen and neither in PDF. > > Next I went to option inspector and set "PageWidth" to paperWidth (it was > infinity) I could only change this option in Global and not in notebook or > Selection (the field was grayed out there). ? > > But this did not help either. For lines that are too long, I can see the > rest of the line on the screen and have to scroll horizontally to see it. > > I tried many other things. > > Does any one know what is the best combination of options/formatting to use > so that text cells would looks the best for printing? and which font to use > for best results? > > btw, I try to not hit carriage return when I write text in a text cell. > Turning off LineBreakWithin seems to be the key option to play with, but I > think I made things worst. > > I tried also to change the cell style to ItemParagraph from text, but this > did not seem to help much. > > I would love to use Mathematica to typeset my reports, but I still find > Latex output via SW easier to work with. > > ps. I use Report style sheet, but even default style sheet has the same > problem. > > I put the current notebook here that I am trying these things on, so you can > see the mess I made with the text cells > > http://12000.org/tmp/oct_16_2009/ > > thanks for any hints > > --Nasser > I looked at your notebook. It seems, that you didn't use Text-Cells in the regions where leading blanks occur at the beginning of a line. You can see this, if you look at the cell-brackets. There is a small triangle at the upper corner, which means that the cell includes two-dimensional output. Such a cell will line-wrap as output-cells do. I suggest to use Text-Cells only for your explanatory text (you may include inline-formulas with <Ctrl>9) and put big formulas in separate "DisplayFormula" Cells, where you may change them to TraditionalForm. -- _________________________________________________________________ Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de