Change size and other properties of TextMobjects

Hi,

I have been trying to create to make some changes to the text I write on screen using TextMobjects. Here is a sample line:

final_line = TextMobject(r"${S1 \times R1} \over {S1 + R1}$", color=ORANGE)

The color is the only property I could change for this TextMobject. I tried setting size=0.5. However, it did not have any effect. What about aligning the text?

I looked around for a couple of hours to find examples for positioning the text and found out about Vgroup and arrange.

The arrange method solved the alignment issue. However, I still couldn’t figure out how to change size or other properties.

Is there a central source of information where I can read about properties like arrange and the parameters they take etc. and objects like Vgroup?

Manim does have a lot of classes, methods, and parameters. However, I can only find about them from working examples after a lot of searching.

Is there a place where I can read about the whole library when I want to figure out how to do things?

Thanks. 😃

[TonyCrane]

The TextMobject is a subclass of SVGMobject, and SVGMobject is a subclass of VMobject, and VMobject is a subclass of Mobject.

So TextMobject has all methods which Mobject, VMobject and SVGMobject have. Then you can find all methods in mobject.py, types/vectorized_mobject.py, svg/svg_mobject.py.

manim has a clear structure of Class inheritance, I made a mind map of the structure, you can see it at here

[baljeetrathi]

I managed to align the text to left by using \raggedright.