Questions related to the Mathematica front-end (graphical user interface).
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How can I improve Mathematica's resolution on a macbook retina display?
Mathematica looks a bit fuzzy on the retina screen, how can I increase the resolution?
Here another screenshot showing a direct comparison between the browser and Mathematica
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Is there a shortcut to select all cells above the current cursor position?
Is there a command / menu entry / keyboard shortcut to evaluate all cells above / up to the current cursor position? I have the feeling I am missing something elementary here...
Addendum: In fact, it ...
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How to prevent output truncation when importing large Graphics?
The Evaluation Preferences in Mathematica specify a maximum output size of 1048576 Bytes before truncation occurs. That makes a ...
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How can I style a cell frame with rounded corners?
I'd like use rounded rectangles for my cell style, but I'm not sure if this is possible. Perhaps it can be faked with an image as a background for it?
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How to activate the collapsed template list on V9
Is there way to activate the collapsed template list?
By "collapsed template list", I mean the little arrow which appears when ones types the name of an built-in function, as shown on this video.
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Extracting text from cells, preserving non-ASCII characters
Consider the following setup, based on this answer by WReach:
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Beginner: Saving & Reloading but Preserving Input/Output [duplicate]
This is my first post on this StackExchange. I made a Mathematica Notebook with a simulated data set the other day, just to learn the basics of making different graphs and creating a linear ...
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Highlighting bracketing in Mathematica [duplicate]
I'm working with lists of lists of lists. Each box with information has a specific format like
information = {{a},{{b}},{{{c},{d}},{e,{f}}},{g}}
and so ...
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Infinite computation in Mathematica 9
I just installed Mathematica 9 on Windows 8 64-bit. When I run it and try to execute commands, the first command works perfectly, but the second and further commands don't work. There is no completion ...
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Poor anti-aliasing in Rotated text with ClearType on
There is a problem on my system that occurs when text is rotated 90 degrees as it is in frame labels. This only happens when ClearType is turned on, and only around 90 degrees of rotation.
I am ...
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Keep palette visible when Mathematica application loses focus
When the Mathematica application loses focus, palette windows disappear (normal notebooks and dialogs (CreateDialog) stay). This is usually convenient because the ...
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Why do buttons with ChoiceDialog freeze the front end?
Pressing the button below will freeze my front end. An unpainted white dialog box comes up, then it completely freezes, and I need to forcibly kill the front end. CPU usage stays at zero during ...
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Template completion
In version 8, if one evaluates
test::usage="test[x,y]";
then types test, then shift-cmd-k (or shift-ctrl-k), a template ...
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How can I make an InputField[] with a proper newline/carriage return?
The return key does not work as expected in an InputField, how can I overcome this?
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Is there a convenient way to copy/paste text-interspersed SE code snippets into Mathematica?
Is there a way to copy and paste code snippets from SE to Mathematica if these snippets are interspersed with text?
Like e.g. in Morphing Graphics, color and location in both the question and answer, ...
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Alternative Math Font
Are there other fonts that can be used for mathematical symbols?
I have noticed, that choosing another font (via Stylesheet) does not change the math font (e.g. for greek symbols). Symbols will just ...
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Where is KeyEventTranslations.tr in Mathematica 9?
I can't find the file in it's usual place /Library/Mathematica/FrontEnd/... was it removed?
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Why is Mathematica limiting the execution time of my calculation? [duplicate]
Is there a Front End option (or programming option) in Mathematica 9 that limits the amount of time that functions take to execute? I have a function (as part of a Mathematica Application) that shows ...
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Determining End of Notebook with Mathematica 9
The application package I had working in Mathematica 8 no longer works in Mathematica 9. I believe the problem lies in how I cycle through cells and test for reaching the last cell of the notebook. ...
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How to set MouseAppearance to void?
I need to get an output graphics which does not show mouse cursor over itself. I didn't find a corresponding value in MouseAppearance documentation and ended up ...
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How to make “Text” Cell which does not auto-format in TraditionalForm in-line math expressions?
This is a continuation of the previous post: How to enter textual subscripts and superscripts?.
When dealing with complex in-line math expressions inside a "Text" ...
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How to enter textual subscripts and superscripts?
When I add a sub- or superscript to a letter in a "Text" cell using the "Writing Assistant" palette this letter becomes Italic:
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Repeating the contents of one cell in another, in “real time”
How could I create two Input cells, such that when the first is evaluated, the contents of the first are copied to the second? So for example, there would be two empty cells - let's call them A and B ...
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How to prevent the welcome screen from showing up after I close my last notebook? (Ubuntu 11.10, MMA 8.0.4.0)
I would like to prevent the welcome screen from showing up after I close my last notebook. This is not an issue on my Windows machine, so I suspect it is system dependent. I am running Ubuntu 11.10. ...
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Implementing efficient multiple undo
The Mathematica Front End's built-in Undo command can only undo a single editing step.
Has anyone implemented or seen implemented an efficient and comfortable multiple undo?
I have in mind ideas ...
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Why is MenuCommandKey not working in my stylesheet?
Here is the cell style data for my custom version of Section:
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Are formal characters like \[FormalA] to be used differently than other symbols?
I noticed that Mathematica has a set of special 'Formal' characters such as \[FormalA], \[FormalB] , etc.. In the front end, it ...
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Printing grouped cells
How can I print grouped cells with CellPrint ?
The closest thing I have to what I want to do is this
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Programmatically opening a palette from the Palettes menu
How can I programmatically open a palette from the Palettes menu? Is there a Front End token for this?
Motivation:
Certain settings for the palettes that are installed into standard locations and ...
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FontSubstitutions: how do they work?
I'm puzzled by FontSubstitutions. The help says this:
FontSubstitutions
is an option for Style and Cell that gives a list of substitutions to try for font ...
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What is the full list of all font families?
I'm having trouble finding a complete list of the FontFamily strings that mathematica supports.
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How to find out available fonts from within Mathematica?
How to find out available fonts on the system from within Mathematica? When I do
Style["foobar", FontFamily -> "Foobar"]
how do I know which font the ...
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How do I make my own alias using AliasDelimiter [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Defining symbol shortcuts in the Front End
I would like to create my own alias for the front-end so the user to be able to input rather complicated symbols quickly using ...
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Can Button[] generate output without using Print[]?
Button[] beguiles me. A simple example follows:
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in v9, backspace causes cell to become section style
In the front end of v9, in any given cell that contains content, if I hit backspace to clear the content until there is nothing left, and then hit backspace one more time, the cell becomes a ...
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Can the banner in the Home Edition be removed?
The Mathematica Home Edition shows a banner at the top of every notebook:
Is there a way to (permanently) get rid of it, without violating the EULA?
Edit
Yesterday, I sent this message to WRI ...
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Automatic recovery after crash
I want Mathematica to periodically autosave my notebooks to the temp folder.
And in case of front-end crash i want to see the dialog after restart with the following choices:
recover from autosaved ...
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How to catch the “Preemptive” evaluations from within the main loop?
When trying to make an optimized version of my plotRange fonction I faced a problem of catching the "Preemptive" evaluations ...
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Setting the context automatically based on section
Suppose I have a task that keeps things organized using contexts, so:
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Font Issues: “Like Resource 58” error
I'm running Mathematica 9.0.0 on a Macbook Air with OSX 10.6.8 and I've recently started having issues with the font in the program. All special characters are being replaced with other characters in ...
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Obtaining the number in CounterBox
Is there a way of obtaining the current number of a counterbox? Say for instance that in a new notebook you create 3 section cells. Then by evaluating the command:
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Accessing data on local machine from remote kernel
I have a remote kernel on a server that I would like to use to process some data. The connection works, i.e, I'm able to use the local front end and the remote kernel. However, I cannot figure out how ...
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Are later versions of the Front-End compatible with older Kernels?
At my graduate school, all of the clusters still use version-6, and I only have version-7 and version-8 installed on my computer. I would like to use those machines remotely. Are either of the ...
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How to specify default style in Mathematica 9
In Mathematica 8, I can use GraphicsBoxOptions->{DefaultBaseStyle->{"Graphics", FontFamily -> "Helvetica", FontSize -> 14}} to specify the default font ...
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Mathematica 8 and window names for modified files
I do not know if this is particular to Mac OS, but with version 8, the window name of a notebook no longer changes (with an appended *) when it is modified, as it used to do with version 7 (as well as ...
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How to automate generation of image files?
I need to generate a large number of figures as PNG files, and I'm trying to decide whether Mathematica would be the quickest way to do this.
All the figures have the same basic structure, and I'm ...
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Changing size and color of a Text on version 9
I am running v9 on mac pro and think that I am doing something wrong.
When commenting the solution of a particular exercise I add a text cell (command 7) and type the comment which is nothing more ...
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Problems with images caused by which stylesheet is used
Update
This looks now like it was a bug in Mathematica version 8, because
everything works as expected - at least for this minimal example - in
version 9. (As an aside, I couldn't seem to find ...
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Wolfram Alpha double == sign not shown anymore? [closed]
I wanted to use wolframAlpha by hitting two times the equal sign. Normally I get the small wolframalpha logo but somehow it doesn't show anymore?
I get a strange character instead.
I tried starting ...
