Questions related to the Mathematica front-end (graphical user interface).
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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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Copying Greek text from notebooks as unicode [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to “Copy as Unicode” from a Notebook?
How can I copy Greek text from notebooks as proper Unicode that can be pasted into other applications? If I type ...
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Preserving indentation when creating a new line (when editing in a package)
Background:
This is the third question in a row of questions about how to make editing packages in the front-end much more bearable (the other two are here and here). It seems that the front end is ...
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Shortcut to insert CounterBox
Is there a shortcut to inserting a CounterBox as you type in text mode? I haven't yet made extensive use of them but I can foresee them in my near future and the ...
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Toolbars in Mathematica
Mathematica seriously lacks some useful toolbars. I wonder why keeping a totally barebone gui is part of WRI's policy? Would such a feature be so platform-specific that it does not worth design it? I ...
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How to force neat linewrapping in Print?
I am regularly annoyed by the fact, that a neatly arranged Print statement gets ruined by a large piece of data, which - instead of linewrapping "in place" - is ...
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How can I change the style of every newly opened notebook?
I'd like to make Mathematica open a new notebook using the Natural Color template (under the Creative category) by default. Is that possible? If so, how?
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Cell brackets on left side?
Is it possible to have the cell brackets on the left? I looked through the options and couldn't find anything, but maybe it's some kind of esoteric style setting or something.
The reason I'm looking ...
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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 to menus?
What can I do to programmatically add to contextual menus? Is something similar to ...
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Typeset unbalanced brackets
In LaTeX, you can typeset expressions containing unbalanced brackets, by balancing them with an invisible delimiter \left. or ...
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Quickly display a color graphically
When manipulating colors, the output is shown as a textual expression like Hue[1/5], RGBColor[2/3, 1, 1/3], ...
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Identify which cell uses most memory in front-end
Even though the mathematica front-end is much more robust than it used to be,
everyone must have noticed that when a few 3D graphics are involved, the front-end produces very large notebooks which ...
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What is modifying an init.m that changes menu Palettes order?
When I installed the mathStatica application, it seems to have made some kind of change deep in my Mathematica 8.0.4 system files. That change causes the mathStatica palette to appear out of ...
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Intermediate display similar to PrintTemporary
Using MMA we often come across situations like the following
cityLIST = CityData[#, "Name"] & /@ CityData[];
This code if you evaluate will emit some display ...
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How can one define an infix operator with an arbitrary unicode character?
You can setup "UsefulFunction[a, b]" to use custom infix notation "a [LeftRightArrow] b" as follows:
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Keeping Quotation Marks in Output
I am running into the following seemingly simple problem. I have this code:
testphrase="i love you";
input=ToLowerCase[StringSplit[testphrase, Whitespace]]
It ...
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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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Is it possible to make v9 ignore case when completing names?
In v8, I could type, say, fulls or texf to get FullSimplify or ...
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Listing all celltags in a notebook
Is there a command to obtain all the CellTags and the style of the cell they are in? This question is derived from this question which was answered by jVincent. ...
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Text in columns
So far I've only seen the front end work in a one-cell-below-the-other manner, so I am probably not expecting much of this question, but here it goes.
Is there any way to create a document with text ...
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Create shortcut in Mathematica for “Equal Symbol Aligned Math Cell”
How do I create a new shortcut for creating a "Equal Symbol Aligned Math Cell" in Mathematica 8?
Update
I meant a keyboard shortcut. An "Equal Symbol Aligned Math Cell" is exactly what @Heike ...
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Move the cursor in a notebook using the keyboard
How can I move through a notebook using only the keyboard?
If one tries to use the arrow keys, the cursor tends to get "trapped" in comments and error messages.
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Make the selection become the button you click
Let's assume I want a button that, when you click it, get the cell that contains it selected.
This approach won't work, it selects the cell containg the selection previous to the click.
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Collapse a section of a huge function
(I have recently taken to Mathematica... still a noobie)
Is there an elegant way of hiding/collapsing only a portion of a function (for example, in Matlab, within a function, one can collapse the for ...
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How to anchor a Pane's scroll position to the bottom?
Suppose I have a Pane containing some dynamic text, for example that is being updated by a logging function.
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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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How to change the style definitions for Default.nb?
I have looked over other questions related to style definitions, and looked through the Mathematica 8 documentation, but I do not know why I am having so much difficulty setting the default font in my ...
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Drag & drop path info into front end?
On OSX at least, it's possible to quickly retrieve a folder/file path by dragging & dropping the folder/file into the terminal, eg:
Is it possible to program Mathematica's front end enable ...
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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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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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Default position and size of front-end windows (in Windows 7)
I'm running Mathematica 8 on Windows 7. When I start the Mathematica front end, I would like the menu bar and the blank notebook that opens to appear at a different position and with a different size ...
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How do I change the pressed button appearance?
On my system when a default button is pressed it turns light blue. This appearance can be changed using this code from the documentation:
Use a second element to get the appearance of a pressed ...
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SubTitle and SubSubTitle do not group by default
For some reason, the SubTitle and SubSubTitle cell formats do not group automatically on my machine any more, and I cannot ...
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How does AutoStyleWords work?
The title says it all. I assume it provides some way of automatically applying a certain style, or a list of options, to certain words written, just like other options of the sort like ...
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Is it possible to create Evaluatable cell which will be automatically overwritten?
Am trying to generate an Evaluatable cell which itself is an output cell which will be overwritten when the original Input cell ...
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How can I add a background to a stylesheet?
In version 9 we can set the background to an image, however I'd like to save this into a stylesheet that can be installed.
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Better Autocompelete for the Front-End
I wonder if it is possible to improve the front-end's autocomplete capability. Compared with some other more sophisticated editors/IDEs, such as eclipse, Mathematica's front-end does not provide a ...
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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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Accessing the Options of the parent Cell
From within the Kernel, it is possible to access a Cell's options using CurrentValue. For instance, in a ...
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Pasting TemplateBox with a Dynamic argument
Ok, this is pretty specific...
The objective is to use a TemplateBox to format something that is programatically inserted with ...
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Help bogged down at first query
When I open help at the first time in a mathematica session and I submit a query it always get bogged down for many seconds until a message appears as in the picture. Then I select continue waiting, I ...
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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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How to select all initialization cells?
Is there an easy way to select all initialization cells (and only those) in a Mathematica notebook?
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How to select and delete all Output cells?
How to select and delete all Output cells in multiple notebooks programmatically without needing to (manually) opening them?
How to define a hot key for deleting all Output cells within a notebook ...
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List of Mathematica textual symbols
Context
I am using Mathematica to create live documents - documents that are both interactive and show mathematical derivations. Now, I'm aware that there are certain symbols that are available via:
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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 do I prevent auto loading of blank notebook at startup?
I'm using Mathematica 8 with operating system Mac OS X Lion. When I open Mathematica it always loads a blank notebook. I don't want it to load anything by default.
In the Preferences pane there ...
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Changing default ImageSize in the frontend?
I would like graphs to appear somewhat larger in my notebooks (running v8.0.4 on OSX 10.8.2).
Naturally I can specify ImageSize in each individual plot, or drag ...
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Close programmatically all cell groups in Mathematica?
Is it possible to collapse all cell groups in the current notebook? I tried
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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 ...
