Re: special character size
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- Subject: [mg123155] Re: special character size
- From: Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm at nnips.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:00:44 -0500 (EST)
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Tomas Garza wrote:
> I just tried your experiment in my PC with Mathematica 8.0.4 running
> under Windows Vista. The results were as expected: the first cell(input)
> was in 12 point Courier, and the three text cells (in Times New Roman)
> printed (in my Lex mark injet printer) exactly as formatted: 12 point,
> 11 point and 10 point. Each of them had some text ("this is a text")
> and included the expression typed in the input cell (Sin[theta]
> Exp[-theta], where theta is in Greek). I couldn't detect anything
> wrong with it. Perhaps you could describe in detail the formatting
> steps you used. I think the magnification has nothing to do with the
> problem.
> -Tomas
>
I think you're right about the magnification being irrelevant. It looks
like it's a Mac-specific problem, then. In the trivial test notebook I
used, all I did for the three Text Cells was to select each (separately)
by its bracket then, using the Font window (Cmd-t) pick
a font size, 10, 11, or 12 pt. Then I printed the results. Couldn't be
much simpler.
One problem with on-screen font-size differences is that different
typefaces have inherently different sizes. But this is a separate issue.
- Dushan
>> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:25:40 -0500
>> From: dushanm at nnips.net
>> Subject: Re: special character size
>> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>>
>> Gary wrote:
>>> Instead of changing the font size in the cell to see larger entry
>>> text, I use Magnification in the Windows menu. It appears to affect
>>> Roman and Greek text equally.
>>>
>>> OS X 10.6.8, Mathematica 8
>>>
>> Gary, thanks for the suggestion. It led me to run a series of
>> experiments, whose results at first were confusing (part of the delay in
>> responding). Now I think I've got a bit of a handle on the problem.
>> The handle, unfortunately, rather than being a solution, points to a bug
>> in Mathematica's (version 8.0.4) printing system, at least as manifested
>> on my machine running Mac OS X.6.8.
>>
>> On a test notebook page I placed an Input cell and three Text cells
>> (which included in-line expressions). The expression Input cell was in
>> Courier 12 pt; the Text cells had identical content and differed only in
>> font size: 10 pt, 11 pt, and 12 pt. Three typefaces were tried: Monaco,
>> Menlo, and Courier. On screen the text in the Text cells varied in size
>> just as you'd expect, increasing about 10% for each point increase in
>> size. But in every case and all typefaces tried, when printed on my
>> LaserJet, the text of the 11 pt Text cell was significantly bigger than
>> that of the 12 pt Text cell.
>>
>> This test was done with Option Inspector magnification set to 1.25 and
>> the screen window magnification (lower right box in the window frame)
>> set to 1.00. With these reversed, the results were unchanged.
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions for getting around this quirk, I'd sure
>> like to learn it.
>>
>> - Dushan
>> (reverse middle word in address to reply)
>>
>>> On Nov 15, 2:53 am, Dushan Mitrovich<dush... at nnips.net> wrote:
>>>> When writing text in a notebook I use a font size that's easy for me to
>>>> see (11). But when I enter special characters, such as Greek, they
>>>> appear quite a bit smaller, so I have to highlight them and increase
>>>> their size (Cmd-= on a Mac). In Option Inspector if I increase the
>>>> FontSize, it increases everything including the plain text. What's the
>>>> recommended way to get more uniformity in character size?
>>
>>