Questions tagged [customization]
Customizing interaction, the front end, or other aspects of Mathematica manually or programmatically.
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1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis
I would like to plot those two datasets on top of each other. But they have very different range on the $y$ axis. How can I have two different axis?
I found the following on the help menu but quite ...
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Is it possible to define a new PlotTheme?
In version 10 one can define, say,
$PlotTheme = "Scientific"
Which changes the appearance of all plots. This is fantastic because on the one hand I can have nice ...
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Is it possible to customize the Suggestions Bar?
I'd like to be able to customize the Suggestions Bar in v9.0 to provide recommendations of my own. Possible example: when doing unit calculations, I'd like it to suggest converting the answer to ...
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Argument completions for user-defined functions
Mathematica 10 has introduced file name completion for the arguments of certain built-in functions, such as Import, SetDirectory,...
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How to change the default ColorData used in Mathematica's Plot?
This question leads on from the recent question What are the standard colors for plots in Mathematica?
There it was determined that the default color palette used by ...
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Changing FrontEnd automatic scrolling in version 8
In Mathematica versions < 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 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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How to make a custom NN layer in Mathematica?
Is there a way to create our own custom layers for Neural Networks in Mathematica ? I suspect it should be possible, any pointers or directions on how to go about it?
I am interested in ...
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Is it possible to insert new colour schemes into ColorData?
Because of the standards in my field, for many plots I need to use (or at least end up using) rather narrowly defined colour schemes, and in particular the Matlab "Jet" scheme, which is well described ...
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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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Switch from logarithmic to linear scaling partway along a plot's axis
In the 2015 Planck satellite results, they give the latest plot of the temperature power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background, which I show below. (I am only interested in the main plot; you ...
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Keyboard shortcut to evaluate notebook
(If this is entirely trivial, although I couldn't find an answer as much as I searched the archives, I will delete the question.)
How could I add a keyboard shortcut to evaluate the entire notebook ...
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Customize keybindings without modifying files in the installation directory
I would like to know if I can modify key bindings without being able to modify the KeyEventTranslations.tr in the installation directory.
So maybe putting another one in my home dir and linking to it ...
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Prompt a set of possible options
Recent versions of Mathematica dynamically prompt a list of possible options. For example, when typing
Plot[x, {x,0,1}, PlotStyle->
After typing the arrow, ...
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Is there a way to make the "Details" section of the Documentation expanded by default?
By default, the Mathematica documentation opens with the "Details" section collapsed.
This is never what I'm looking for — in fact, I've lost count of the times I've sought help on a feature and not ...
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Mathematica Sec and Csc
How can I prevent Mathematica from using the "old fashioned" functions "Sec" and "Csc"?
In Germany these functions are "old fashioned" as they are not taught anymore at school.
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How to change default notebook background color?
How does one change the default notebook background color?
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How to get old message formatting in version 11?
Version 11 uses a new-style message formatting.
The new style has useful features, and it is usually desirable. However, when saved in a notebook, it doesn't display correctly in older versions of ...
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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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Context unique to each group at a specified level
Are there any new tools in v10 that might be applicable to this problem?
Recent versions of Mathematica provide the option of having a unique $Context for each ...
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Live code templates
I enjoy coding in the FrontEnd (except it crashes and lookup across files does not exist), but I often miss 'hands on keyboard', customizable code templates.
E.g. I often forget to wrap an option ...
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Changeable header and footer banners in Slide Show style
I would like to create Mathematica slide shows that contain several tailored, fixed banners as headers and footers, much as MS Powerpoint, MS Word, Apple Pages, and LaTeX documents allow one to ...
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Modify existing color scheme
I am using the "TemperatureMap" color scheme for image processing. How can I set the lowest color value to Black?
Generally ...
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Is it possible to Print expressions in reverse order?
Let's say I'm debugging a program step by step and want to Print some expressions (using ShowIt, for example).
Is there a way to output the result of ...
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Get tab key to indent a block of code
[Feature added in version 13.1]
Is there some way I can change Mathematica keyboard behavior so I could select a block of text/code, press tab, and the selection would be indented to right? Similarly, ...
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Change base font for all graphics objects
How can I change the base font style for all graphics objects, including the ones generated using plotting functions?
I would like to change this a single time and have it affect all graphics ...
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Parenthesize what I have highlighted
I want to highlight a piece of equation, click a button and have that part taken into parentheses.
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Creating a custom web API ServiceConnection
Can I build a custom API service connection that links into the standard framework?
I know there are paclets that seem to implement this. How are they structured and how can I write my own?
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Rebinding keys to define new keyboard shortcuts
I've checked Mathematica → Preferences, and poked around the options on the toolbar. However, I don't see a way to define new keyboard shortcuts in Mathematica.
I've used VIM for 10+ years, and I've ...
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Make cursor stay in input cell
By default, after evaluating an input cell by hitting Enter or Shift-Return the cursor jumps below the corresponding output cell. Is there a way to make the cursor stay exactly where it was before the ...
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How to add named characters to Mathematica 10 or later?
Any news regarding this for Mathematica 12?
It appears that native support for the Klingon alphabet has been removed from version 10:
\[KlingonA]
Syntax::...
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Non-english spell check dictionaries for Mathematica?
I've spent a fair amount of time bending Mathematica for taking notes and I've been very happy with it, the only missing piece it seems is a nice spell check dictionary for Polish (my mother language)....
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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 can I route edges manually for a Graph?
Most graph layouts supported by Mathematica use straight lines for edges; or at least something that only depends on the coordinates of the two adjacent vertices of the edge and nothing else.
A ...
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Add spaces to Mathematica comment delimiters?
Not exactly the world's most pressing problem, but one that has now exceeded my tolerance level. If I comment out a line of input such as
f[x_]:=x+1;
with Alt-/ (...
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Set spell checking language
Version 11 brings real-time multilingual spell checking. The linked page says,
The language is automatically detected as you type, but it can also be set manually.
How do I set the spell checking ...
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How do I remove the little × that shows up in the frontend when typing?
Version 11.1 now shows a little grayed out × (a multiplication sign) when one is editing something, to warn them that the expression will be interpreted as the ...
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Programming of a natural language interface
I've just started using the Mathematica natural language interface and found it very interesting. After doing some research, I found some documentation on the "Programmable Linguistic Interface":
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Evaluate selection in new window or new notebook?
Sometimes when you have long code you need to check some part of this code.
the way I am using currently is to selected the part that I want and then copy it to new notebook and then evaluate it ...
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Google Drive API connection: (or how can I build a service connection to an OAuth2 service?)
From here I know how to build a a basic service connection.
And that's fine in simple authentication cases but how do I do this for OAuth services?
Even more specifically, how can I do this for ...
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ShowGroupOpener's behavior change in 11.3
Among many settings for a fresh installation I have
CurrentValue[$FrontEnd, ShowGroupOpener] = True
in order to have sections openers always visible.
It does ...
Kuba♦
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How do I programmatically add to contextual menus?
To programmatically add to menus you can do as described here:
How do I add new menuitems to menus?
What can I do to programmatically add to contextual menus? Is something similar to ...
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Can one effectively edit a Front End Resource that is already loaded?
A number of special definitions are loaded from .tr files on Front End initialization and are accessible via FrontEndResource. ...
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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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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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There is a button in the "basic math assistant" which wraps highlighted text in chosen brackets. Is there no keyboard command for this?
This counts as something of a basic question, but one for which I cannot find an answer. I checked the documentation, I checked google, I searched it here, I read a bunch of different things, but ...
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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 do I create annotations for functions?
In 10.3, Mathematica starts captioning symbol-names into foreign languages if your Interface preferences are set to have Mathematica in a foreign language.
I poked around the ...
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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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How do I remove the top bar and bottom bar from the Students Mathematica window?
Any idea how to remove the top bar saying
"Wolfram Mathematica .... Demonstrations MathWorld Studenforum Help"
from the Mathematica main window (see screenshot). It has no use to me and it steals ...
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