# remove quotes in a combination of a text with graphics in the JournalArticle Style

I have a puzzling and very specific question. It may be of limited interest to community. I apologize in advance in this case. Let us see.

I am making an illustration to a text that I write in the StyleSheet Journal Article. Here is the code:

Column[{   Row[{Rotate[Text[Style["Name of y variable", 18, Bold]], \[Pi]/2], im}],
Row[{Spacer[50], Text[Style["Name of x variable", 18, Bold]]}]   }]


Here is an image with ImageSize->200 copied from somewhere. For example this:

It is fine, while I keep the result of the above code as an output. However, for the sake of numeration of images through the long document I transform the output cell style into the Figure cell style. Such a cell style does not exist in the default stylesheet, but one finds it in the document prepared with the help of the JournalArticle StyleSheet.

My problem is that as soon as I transform the output into the Figure style, the texts "Name of y variable" and "Name of x variable" appear with explicit quotes.

It is not unacceptable, but boring, since the unnecessary information is misleading to the reader. I would be grateful for a suggestion, if there is an easy way to remove the quotes.

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After transformation to the Figure style, adding ShowStringCharacters-> False to the Cell expression (Shift- control-E on a PC) might be of help on an individual basis? –  TomD Jun 20 '12 at 14:21
Thank you very much, this helps. –  Alexei Boulbitch Jun 21 '12 at 8:13
I would say, that with this comment my question is solved. –  Alexei Boulbitch Jun 21 '12 at 14:22
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## 2 Answers

Select Format > Edit Stylesheet..., then type Figure into the input field to modify the style for your notebook. Select the newly created cell, and use the option inspector to change the setting for ShowStringCharacters to False.

Alternately, you could include ShowStringCharacters -> False in your uses of Style (after the Bold, for example.)

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If your variable is a string then use:

Column[{ Row[{Rotate[Text[Style[Name of y variable, 18, Bold]], [Pi]/2], im}],

Row[{Spacer[50], Text[Style[Name of x variable, 18, Bold]]}] }]


Otherwise you may need to change your variable to a string first but either way the quotes in your code are not needed.

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Thank you, I have tried it first of all. If it is not a string i.e. the text without the quotes, but consisting of few words (as it is in this example: Name of y variable), Mathematica changes the order of the words. –  Alexei Boulbitch Jun 20 '12 at 12:36
@Alexei Boulbitch is your variable a string? Can you show the code that fills the variable and the result? Testing your code as posted produces the name correctly without quotes, so the error is up stream in your code. –  R Hall Jun 20 '12 at 13:04
The code is exactly what I posted above plus before this code I defined im to be the image that you also see above. Well the string content is different, say instead of the string "Name of x variable" I have "Time (min)", but this does no difference. –  Alexei Boulbitch Jun 21 '12 at 8:04
As I already stated above, the output produced no quotes, that is right. However, as soon as I select the output cell with the result and go to Menu/Format/Style/Figure in order to produce the cell with the figure style, I get it, but the text appears differently: with the quotes. The cell style "Figure" one finds within the JournalArticle StyleSheet, and it is essential. –  Alexei Boulbitch Jun 21 '12 at 8:08
I use M8.0.4.0 on PC, Windows XP. You do not see the Figure because there is not such an item there. Transform your notebook into the JournalArticle StyleSheet and you will find it. –  Alexei Boulbitch Jun 21 '12 at 14:22
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