Re: setting highlight color and font size
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- Subject: [mg130869] Re: setting highlight color and font size
- From: Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm at nnips.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 02:20:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Bob Hanlon wrote: > (1) I don't know. > > (2) An easy thing to do is to change the display magnification at the > bottom of the workbook window or use the menu command > > Window | Magnification Yes, this would work for me, but I'll be converting the whole thing to CDF for my wife's use (it's a cash-flow projection pgm) so that method isn't going to be very effective. I'd like to make it user-proof. > > (3) Until assigned a value, what you type is a Symbol. > > Head /@ {word, 2, Pi, Pi // N, 3.14, 1/4, "str"} > > {Symbol, Integer, Symbol, Real, Real, Rational, String} > > #[word] & /@ {Head, StringQ, NumericQ} > > {Symbol, False, False} > > word = 2; > > #[word] & /@ {Head, StringQ, NumericQ} > > {Integer, False, True} > > word = "str"; > > #[word] & /@ {Head, StringQ, NumericQ} > > {String, True, False} > > word =. > > #[word] & /@ {Head, StringQ, NumericQ} > > {Symbol, False, False} > > > Bob Hanlon > Thanks for all these examples, they illustrate your point effectively. - Dushan [ reverse the middle word of address to reply directly ] > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm at nnips.net>wrote: > >> I'm running Mathematica 9.01 under Mountain Lion X.8.3, and have 3 >> questions to >> which I haven't been able to find answers: >> >> * When some text, or a cell is selected the highlight background color >> is now a light blue; where do I change that default? I don't recog- >> nize anything in Option Inspector that does that. >> >> * The Input command produces a box into which one can type something; >> I would like to change the default font and size of what is typed >> to something more easily readable. Where is that done? >> >> * In the Input box, if I type in some word, Mathematica does not consider >> that to be either a string or numeric (StringQ and NumericQ both >> produce 'False'). So what is it, and how does one learn an object's >> type other than by testing? >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> - Dushan >> [ reverse the middle word of address to reply ] >>
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- setting highlight color and font size