Re: docs for Style, etc. (Antialiasing)
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- Subject: [mg103247] Re: [mg103185] docs for Style, etc. (Antialiasing)
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:28:48 -0400 (EDT)
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You can use Options[Style] to get the options but the problem is that this is a long list with over 160 options and many of them containing a list of subsidiary options. You can get a more convenient listing if you use OptionsFinder in Presentations but you have to start with a Style statement. Presentations also has an Aliasing command up front where it might be easier to find. There are many cases where one might want to draw vertical or horizontal lines and one doesn't really want antialiasing. Antialiasing can result in some of the lines being crisp and others being blurred depending on where they hit on the screen. The non-uniformity is almost more of a problem than the blurring. One of the places where one definitely doesn't want antialiasing is with tick marks, and WRI doesn't use it there. But they do use it with Filling lines. In Presentations I had the free standing scales XTickLine and YTickLine and after Version 6 I gradually realize that they, along with horizontal and vertical lines in general, had a problem. The solution in these cases is to selectively apply Aliasing. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu] There are some function in Mathematica, such as Style, that may be used in a variety of situations. Is there some way to find out from the documentation, e.g., just what sort of expressions expr may be used as the first argument to Style? I ask because a recent posting here by David Park used: Style[Line[...], Antialiasing->False]] Until I saw that, I don't think I knew that a Line expression could be used like that in Style. And I don't even find such a use of Style on the reference page for Line! (But it does appear on the reference page for Antialiasing.) -- 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