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How do I change the MMA-11 MMI at the most trivial level

I have just installed MMA-11 on my MacBook and the very first reactions I have, on a most trivial level, are these (and I cannot resolve them myself obviously):

[1] The dock icon has changed from a cool(-ish) spiky sphere to a Simpsons like starburst - yuk.

[2] Typing zero - 0 - in a notebook puts a centre dotted zero on the page - where did this come from?

I am looking forward to exploiting many of the new mathematics functionality but if anyone can help me clear up these early interface issues, I will be so grateful.

Best Wishes,

David

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POSTED BY: David Mackay
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Alexey Popkov
Alexey Popkov
Posted 9 years ago

You can change the default font back to "Courier New" by evaluating:

SetOptions[$FrontEnd, StyleHints -> {"CodeFont" -> "Courier"}]

This option isn't recognized by previous versions of Mathematica, hence it is new in version 11.0.0. It is still undocumented.
POSTED BY: Alexey Popkov
POSTED BY: George Woodrow III
POSTED BY: David Mackay
David Keith
David Keith
Posted 9 years ago

The zero is the zero with slash typically used to distinguish it from the letter o. But I also don't like the new font. In Dr Wolfram's blog, it is said to be a crisper font:

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But I don't find it so. On my computer (Win 7 x64) I find the fonts for input and output to be fuzzy, leading to eye strain. I would welcome a return to the last implementation.

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Also, we still have fonts in which the letter I is indistinguishable from the numeral 1:

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POSTED BY: David Keith
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