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Re: creating a graphic in a text cell

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  • From: Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm at spinn.net>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:46:25 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:38:48 -0400, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> 
> On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:55 AM, Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm at spinn.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm teaching a statics course that naturally requires a lot of 
>> depictions of ropes, springs, pulleys, etc.  To produce a graphic box
>> I use Ctrl-1 and use the tool palette.  This works, a bit painfully, but 
>> recently I ran into a need to depict angles with short arcs.  I couldn't 
>> find a way of doing that that the graphic box would accept.
>> 
>> Is there a way to specify an arc, and if so, how?  I'm running 
>> Mathematica  
>> 8.0.4.0 under Mac OS X.6.8.  Thanks.
>> 
>> - Dushan Mitrovich
>> 
>> PS, is there a way to delete a cell without using the mouse?  The only 
>> way I know is to click on the right bracket(s), then hit Delete.
> 
> To create a circular arc, you may use the built-in command Circle, as in:
> 
>   Graphics[Circle[{0, 0}, 1, {Pi/6, Pi/3}], 
>      Axes -> True, AxesOrigin -> {0, 0}]
> 
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I tried inserting the above Graphics[ instruction (using a text editor) 
into the notebook, but get the message that 'Graphics' is not an 
appropriate command or primitive.  That's what I mean when I said 
originally "I couldn't find a way of doing that that the graphic box 
would accept."

Alexei Boulbitch's suggestion may be the best solution.

Thanks for the comment.

- Dushan




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