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104 Visualization and Graphics
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This tells Mathematica what default text style to use for all subsequent plots.
SetOptions@Plot, BaseStyle -> 8FontFamily -> "Times", FontSize Ø 14n
FontSlant->"Italic"
FontWeight->"Bold"
FontFamily->"name"
a named style in your current stylesheet
the size of font to use in printer’s points
use an italic font
use a bold font
specify the name of the font family to use (e.g. "Times",
"Courier", "Helvetica")
Typical elements used in the setting for BaseStyle.
If you use the standard notebook front end for Mathematica, then you can set BaseStyle to be
the name of a style defined in your current notebook's stylesheet. You can also explicitly specify
how text should be formatted by using options such as FontSize and FontFamily. Note that
FontSize gives the absolute size of the font to use, measured in units of printer’s points, with
one point being 1 72
inches. If you resize a plot whose font size is specified as a number, the text
in it will not by default change size: to get text of a different size you must explicitly specify a
new value for the FontSize option. If you resize a plot whose font size is specified as a scaled
quantity, the font will scale as the plot is resized. With FontSize -> Scaled@sD, the effective
font size will be s scaled units in the plot.