Questions relating to different typefaces and their use in various Mathematica outputs, including graphics, notebooks and exported output.
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Scale Insetted Characters to Plot
I am trying to place a curly brace within a plot such that the top/bottom of the curly brace line up with two horizontal lines in the plot:
I have not been able to find a way to make the curly ...
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Fontsize is too small
I have this annoyance for a long time now: every Text cell uses the default font size, though it appears too small on my screen. See comparison of same text, same font (Times New Roman), same fontsize ...
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How to embed fonts when exporting Mathematica graphics as PDF
Upon exporting a Mathematica graphics expression as a PDF, Mathematica does not seem to embed any nonstandard fonts used. When you open the resulting PDF document with a PDF viewer, all the text items ...
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Inconsistent display of TraditionalForm in version 9
After installing version 9, the default style sheet uses Arial font in text and formula cells. So far, so bad. At least one would hope this is done consistently.
But now I see this:
You can see ...
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How to find out available fonts from within Mathematica?
How to find out available fonts on the system from within Mathematica? When I do
Style["foobar", FontFamily -> "Foobar"]
how do I know which font the ...
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Keeping Text Size the Same Throughout Entire Notebook File
Is there a way in which when you choose to format the size of the font within your notebook, for a particular cell, when you go into another cell, the default size font (12pt) will not be ...
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How can I make CurrentValue for font characteristics pick up the font of the output not the input cell?
The command CurrentValue (documentation) allows you to access various properties of fonts, such as x-height, line height, and various measures of width such as ...
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Version 9 Blue Screen or Self-Test Error on Windows 7 64-bit
Update There is now an official response from Wolfram Support on this issue.
Having recently installed Mathematica version 9 64-bit on Windows 7, I keep running into Self-Test Errors evaluating ...
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Why does Installing small caps fonts in OS X cause notebook Text cells to use that font?
I installed Adobe Type 1 Times Roman SC (small caps) and Times Roman Bold SC fonts on my Mac OS X system. Now every old or newly-created Text style cell in every ...
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Mathematica PDF import and fonts
I am trying to put nice LaTeX labels on my Mathematica plots. I can do this manually, or by introducing an extra GNUPlot step into my workflow, but it would streamline the process considerably if ...
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Is there a way to export text to SVG as text, rather than paths?
When I use Export to export graphics in SVG format, all text in the the exported file seems to get converted to paths. Is there a way to prevent this?
Is there a ...
