How to change text size of TextMobject in Manim

Question

I hope you are all doing great!

I am wondering how to make text smaller in manim.

I know you can do text.scale(0.8), but I want to know how to do it after it has been used.

For example,

text.scale(0.8)


self.play(Write(text))

makeSmaller(text) <-- what I'm looking for

So far, I've tried ApplyMethod(text.scale(0.8)) with no success.

Thank you so much

Edit: Ideally, I do not want to create two different TextMobject's and then transition between two animations.

Answer 1

It is:

ApplyMethod(text.scale, 0.8)

or

self.play(text.scale, 0.8)

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