Tagged Questions
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Aligning Text Using Spaces While Maintaining Pretty Print
To help illustrate my problem, consider the following cell:
First thing to notice is that there is syntax highlighting. Second, I can pretty print mathematics; that is, I see $x^2$ instead of ...
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Change “Format type of new input cells” to InputForm
In Preferences -> Evaluation there is a menu to change "Format type of new input cells" and the only options available are: StandardForm, TraditionalForm, and Raw InputForm.
Is it possible to set ...
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How to change Mathematica cursor globally?
I usually use my OS with negative colors (to keep my eyes calm...). I had seen a function called MouseAppearence that changes the cursor. I would like configure ...
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Quick way to invert a fraction
Over the years of using Mathematica, I find myself doing something along the lines of rewriting this:
$\frac{[A^-_F]}{[A^-_U] + \frac{[H^+][A^-_U]}{\kappa_1}}$
as this:
$\frac{[A^-_U] + ...
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Select Cells to End of Notebook
I'd like to create a keyboard shortcut that will allow me to select all of the cells from the current cell until the end of the notebook, similar to how ShiftCtrlEnd functions when editing text in ...
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How to make certain mathematical characters be written as bold by default
In a notebook, when writing \[RightVector] over a variable I always end up bolding it to make it more visible. But it'd be easier if it could be set up to bold that ...
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What is the complete sequence of evaluations/transformations from submitting a cell to actual evaluation?
This question is inspired by that one. Reading it, I noticed that while (I think) I know what happens when entering an expression directly to the kernel (i.e. after typing ...
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How to display cell groups in documentation pages
I recently introduced my WildCats package in the Meta Thread What third-party packages do you use? and @Szabolcs promptly observed that:
"I noticed that there are many cell groups in the documentation ...
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How to add an entirely new menu
Is it possible to add an entirely new menu, say menu "CustomApp" on the fly?
For example a CustomApp package could add its own menu "CustomApp" with submenus, ect, once Needed.
Former examples I ...
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Best way to add KeyEvents and faster Quit
Many users have asked how to add KeyEvents to speed/improve keyboard input. This is just a random example. The technique is always the same. It requires that you ...
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Command Completion
Note: As of version 9, this functionality is available and works out of the box.
I've a few questions about Command Completion in Mathematica. I recently discovered this feature, and it's really ...
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How to copy hyperlink addresses using the keyboard
I would like to copy the address of a hyperlink in Mathematica using the keyboard.
I found code for copying hyperlink addresses in ContextMenus.tr:
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3answers
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Opening a context menu (with the Menu key)
Is it by any chance possible to make the Menu key work as one would expect in Mathematica: opening a context menu?
The Menu key does nothing in version 7 or 8 on Windows.
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Customize front end to add notifications when evaluation finishes?
Is it possible to add some customization code to the front end, so that when all cells have finished evaluating, some user code can be run?
Background: I'm currently running some Mathematica programs ...
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Delete the current notebook cell using the keyboard
Is there another way than pressing Ctrl+. until the whole cell is selected and then pressing Del?
If this is not built in, can I create some sort of a global macro to do this and bind it to a ...
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Changing FrontEnd automatic scrolling in version 8
In Mathematica versions $\le$ 8, the FrontEnd has a very intelligent behavior:
On evaluation, it by default automatically scrolls down the Notebook window to the last printed Output cell but also ...
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How can I change the keyboard shortcut for switching the active window?
The default keyboard shortcut (on Windows at least) for switching focus to the next window is Ctrl+F6, and for switching to the previous windows it's Shift+Ctrl+F6. How can I change this to Ctrl+Tab ...
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How make AddMenuCommands work in an init.m
I want to add some items to the Mathematica 8.0.4 Help menu (under Mac OS X). In
[$UserBaseDirectory]/Autoload/FrontEnd/init.m
I have the following cell:
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How to improve the typesetting of mathematical contents
Until I started diving into Mathematica, I was not using much computer software for symbolic computation. I did my analysis by hand on blank sheets, the calculations using Python or MATLAB, and the ...
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How do I add new menuitems to menus?
What are some complete examples of what one would include in a FrontEnd init.m that would make use of FrontEnd`AddMenuCommands ...
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Is it possible to regain Mathematica 5.2's palette input focus behaviour with version 8.0?
Between Mathematica 5.2 and later versions, there has been a change in determining which notebook gets the palette input focus, which leads to quite unfortunate behaviour if you use ...
