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Re: How change font size of Graph vertex labels?

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  • Subject: [mg117236] Re: How change font size of Graph vertex labels?
  • From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:09:45 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 11, 8:36 pm, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I want to make the "Names" labels of vertices in a Graph larger.  The
> "obvious" way...
>
>    Graph[{1, 2, 3},
>       {DirectedEdge[1, 2], DirectedEdge[2, 3], DirectedEdge[3, 1]},
>       {VertexLabels -> {Placed["Name", Center]}, VertexSize -> {Medium},
>       VertexStyle -> {24}}]
>
> ...seems to do nothing. And replacing the option VertexStyle -> {24}
> with the wordier VertexStyle -> {FontSize->24} prevents Mathematica from
> evaluating the Graph expression at all.
>
> (Mathematica 8.0.1)
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This works but may not be the most efficient way of doing it:

VertexRenderingFunction -> (Text[Framed[Style[#2, 24, Bold, Blue],
frame options, rounding radius etc.], #1] &)

Mike


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