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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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