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Column makes fonts smaller
There is an option for Column or Grid to avoid this: AllowScriptLevelChange
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How to get rid of new default Version 11 and 12 Input/Output fonts -> and keep the traditional Courier font
No need to modify a stylesheet, it is sufficient to evaluate
SetOptions[$FrontEnd, StyleHints -> {"CodeFont" -> "Courier"}]
or equivalently
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Converting a Text into a list of points
Graphics[MeshPrimitives[
BoundaryDiscretizeGraphics[
Text[Style["h", FontFamily -> "Courier", 300]], _Text], 0]]
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Converting a Text into a list of points
I would define the letter as a discretised 2D region and plot it with axes in order to get a rough idea about its area:
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How can I change the default font used in ALL plots and legends in Mathematica?
You can control the fonts that are used through a stylesheet. First, note the style definition used by the DefaultBaseStyle ...
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What's the name of the default font used in Mathematica 11?
Straight from the proverbial horse's mouth:
Default font changed to Source Code Pro on Mac, Consolas on Windows, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono on Linux.
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Different fonts in MaTeX
This is all covered in the built-in documentation. Search for MaTeX in Mathematica's documentation centre, or type in the following address: MaTeX/guide/MaTeX. ...
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Magnification, ScreenResolution, ScreenInformation and Printing: Please shine some Light into it!
The issue is that for reasons that are mysterious, Mathematica has been using an incorrect value of the ScreenResolution parameters on Windows machines since time ...
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How to get rid of new default Version 11 and 12 Input/Output fonts -> and keep the traditional Courier font
Following the lead from J.M., and then some comments therein from User18 and QuantumDot, the following is working:
In the common StyleSheet, under Notebook options,...
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Column makes fonts smaller
Another approach is to set AllowScriptLevelChange -> False via GridBoxOptions:
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Font style inconsistency on "number sign" (hashtag) and "at symbol"
Style has a PrivateFontOptions option with suboption OperatorSubstitution. With the default ...
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What's the name of the default font used in Mathematica 11?
On my Windows 7 system, CurrentValue[{StyleHints, "CodeFont"}] gives Consolas. A perhaps more intuitive way to find it is to simply highlight a piece of text/output/...
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What is the full list of all font families?
As of version 10.1 you can use $FontFamilies.
From the documentation:
$FontFamilies gives the list of the font families ...
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Which fonts are supported in Wolfram Cloud?
A partial and likely incomplete answer to this is the following:
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Mathematica equivalent to HTML `code` or LaTeX `\texttt`
It will depend on what style sheet you use. In the Default style sheet you can select the text and hit the Cmnd+9 (OS x — I think it's Alt+9 on Windows).
Here is an example.
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Italic fonts for plots like those appear in scientific papers
Joining the answer by José and a comment by egwene:
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How to display Latin Modern Math font correctly in Mathematica?
Practical solution
Just use MaTeX.
Explanation
There is in fact—more or less—nothing really wrong with what you see. If you compare the same text to the one written in some other word processor (e.g. ...
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Letter g rendered with different descender styles
It took me a while to figure out what was happening.
Mathematica 11 uses different fonts on Windows, OS X and Linux. They are Consolas, Source Code Pro and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, respectively.
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Blurry fonts in notebooks
So this is something I have partially encountered before (though I can't guarantee it will will work for everyone, or even anyone other than me), the first thing I did was to use this tool to fix ...
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Bold text using package MaTeX
Use \boldsymbol{\pi}, which renders as $\boldsymbol{\pi}$, instead of \mathbf{\pi}, which renders as $\mathbf{\pi}$
(don't have ...
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How can I change the default font used in ALL plots and legends in Mathematica?
Try to see if this works for you. (add all the type of plots in the command below you want to set)
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Italic fonts for plots like those appear in scientific papers
Maybe you are looking for the fontname "Euclid". However, be advised that you must have this font installed in your system:
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Why Text Cells converted with Alt-7 have different fonts
You input cell contained a SubscriptBox so it can't be converted to a string when switching to a Text cell. The whole cell content is left as it was in ...
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Exporting/Saving Notebook with Non English characters to PDF
I am on MMA 11.2 Win7-64. In order to reproduce the problem, I copied a few sentences from the Wikipedia page for MMA in Chinese (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica), then pasted them ...
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How can I add drop shadows to the text of non-input/output cells?
Here is an idea of how to do this without rasterization. It will only double + fixed offset the size as any text will be replaced with text+text+overlay specification.
You can play with overlay ...
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Mathematica versions 10 and 11 fonts are broken on Linux
I think I managed to narrow down the problem to the font Helvetica. It seems Mathematica was relying on my system having Helvetica already installed, which I did not.
After installing a package for ...
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Gaps between overbars and square roots in exported graphics in some fonts
I have seen this very problem before. Typesetting does sometimes change when exporting to PDF, and the result may change slightly from version to version.
I recommend that you simply use LaTeX to ...
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