Questions on Notebooks (*.nb, *.ma in earlier versions), structured interactive documents produced by Mathematica that can contain text, graphics, sound, calculations, typeset expressions, and user interface elements.
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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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Notebook[] vs. DocumentNotebook[]; display a Notebook[] inline, like a DocumentNotebook[]
If you evaluate a DocumentNotebook[] expression in the front-end, it nicely displays inline, inside of an output cell in the current notebook:
For my purposes, ...
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Use Initialization Cells to open a CellGroup
I would like to use "Evaluate Initialization Cells" to open a CellGroup in a notebook. However, the following code doesn't work if placed in an initialization cell:
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Can I customize In[] and Out[] headers?
Can I customize the In[] and Out[] headers? I'd like to add $UserName, ...
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How to make a notebook not savable?
How to make a particular notebook not savable? Optionally, how to do this by evaluating a command in the notebook?
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Why can't I change the style of a cell repeatedly?
I ran into this when I was working with an example from the Help Pages of V9. Cells is a new function added in V9. The following appears to work the first time it ...
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How can I make a cell that contains an image which can be shifted?
When you look at some help pages, they may have cells containing images which are movable within the cell when you left-click and drag the mouse.
Here is a sample: ...
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Use different kernels for different Notebooks
I know that the command LaunchKernels[] starts up four kernels on my machine:
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Viewing Mathematica Demonstrations Project Code
I hope I am going insane and the I'm not seeing the snake about to bite me...
How does one view the code in the demonstration projects that one can download from wolfram.com?
It seems like all of ...
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How to retroactively merge cell change history according to a merge interval
I recently noted that there is an option in the options inspector to set a merge interval for cell changes. This (I think) prevents a quick series of changes from spamming your notebook history with a ...
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Use NotebookWrite with Graphics?
I am trying to use NotebookWrite to paste a plot into another notebook. The code looks something like:
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ClearAll just for current notebook
So in my search to fine tune Mathematica to what works for me, I found a nice setting that helps separate variable declaration between notebooks. Under Global Preferences, searching for CellContext ...
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How to change Compiled->False to Method->{Compiled->False} in multiple notebooks?
I have a collection of about 40 notebooks where the options for ParametricPlot and ParametricPlot3D have:
Compiled->False
and I need to switch any/all ...
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How to set the background of a section to light gray?
How to set the background of a section to light gray and leave background of content below and above the section as default?
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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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Storing data in the Notebook in readable form
The common problem in my theretical work is a need to import some experimental data to work with. This means that my notebook depends on some external files which makes it difficult to share it with ...
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How do you configure Mathematica 9 to automatically evaluate all notebooks?
I have a Mathematica 6 course that I am using in Mathematica 9; there is no updated version. Every time I open a notebook I have to go to the Evaluation menu and click on "Evaluate Notebook". Is there ...
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How to create a button that colors a selected piece of text in a cell?
I use Mathematica 9.0.1 and I want change the color of a selection in a text cell using a button. But when I use this code it changes the color of the entire cell.
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Background color of Code cell lost when convert a notebook file to pdf
Well, I have a notebook with the built-in stylesheet Preprint, which I'd like to convert it to pdf. Everything works well except for the code cells(I use the shortcut key alt+8 to create cells of code ...
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How to find out if invisible notebooks are still open
If I create a notebook CreateDocument and I set options such that Visible -> False, is there any way to tell if it's still ...
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Does an equivalent of marks in vim exist for navigating notebooks quickly? [duplicate]
Is it possible in the Mathematica front-end to associate a keyboard shortcut with a cursor location in the notebook (kind of like marks in vim) so that one can return to them quickly later?
(Just ...
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Controlling preferences of deployed notebooks
The following screenshot shows a toy example to illustrate what I want to accomplish:
The above mimics the structure a type of notebook that I want to deploy for both Mathematica and PlayerPro ...
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Is there a way to check whether two notebooks share the same variables?
When I code in Mathematica, I often re-use code from old notebooks which fulfilled a specific purpose; for example, one testing for soft matches in strings, or one that identifies outliers on a graph ...
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How to build and operate a master Notebook?
Suppose you have some notebooks, they work for a family of related tasks, each one doing a certain task. Lets say Notebook 1 gets two inputs from its variables in11 ...
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Is there a callback for notebook exit?
I know that $Epilog is called when Mathematica is exited; is there a callback upon exiting the notebook? If so, what is it?
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creating an API or Widget based on a Mathematica notebook
I'm trying to create matrix calculator and graph tools for our website and was wondering if there is a way to create Wolfram API or Widgets based on a Mathematica notebook.
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Manipulate (linux version of Mathematica)
I'm runnning Mathematica 9 on Ubuntu linux 11.10. After installing CDF player I still have problem (most of time) with Manipulate. Only way I'm able to change value ...
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Entering Sum in traditional form
The documentation for Sum says that it is possible to replace Sum by EscsumEsc. The limits ($i_\max$ and $i_\min$) should be ...
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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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Cell background color changes cell layout
When I change the background color of a cell like in
the colored cells become slightly indented and their line spacing is increased.
How can I change the cell background color while keeping the ...
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How to make a more comfortable and more effective notebook environment? [closed]
I prefer the black colour as my background in the notebook. However, if I choose the black as the background colour, then I also should change some other settings, e.g. syntax coloring and so on, just ...
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Copy last/second last (etc.) input from history into current cell
I like to use terminals (e.g. gnome-terminal) where you can use the up key to copy the last command into the current input 'field'. For example, to repeat the last ...
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How to programatically save a notebook created by CreateDocument
I've already written code that generates about 20 notebooks using "CreateDocument" and I was wondering if there exists a method to automatically save them. Is there an easy way to create a notebook ...
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How does the built-in debugger decide what to highlight?
How does the built-in debugger decide which definition to highlight in the notebook when Break on messages" is enabled?
Here's an example to illustrate what I mean. First, enable the debugger ...
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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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Unexpected result when reading Cell with comment-lines by NotebookRead
When considering this question about re-formatting Cell (also this one), I encountered an issue which confuses me. I'll let the code itself speak:
Consider the ...
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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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Exclude Sections/Subsections/… from evaluation
I'm working on a large notebook and I want to exclude some sections and subsections from being evaluated when I evaluate the whole notebook.
Is there a way to exclude specific sections or ...
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Cell output controlled by CellFrameLabel Checkbox?
The following generates a Cell that returns the state of the checkbox when evaluated:
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Embedding Mathematica Console into a Java/.NET Application [duplicate]
I enjoy using Mathematica's notebook interfaces, but more specifically the autocompletion in each notebook.
I'm in need of a way to put tons of Mathematica windows on the same page.
It would be an ...
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How would I improve this Karaoke machine code?
I was looking at a large collection of Import/Export user suggestions the other day and it dawned on me that we finally have MIDI import in Mathematica 9, which is rather interesting since MIDI ...
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Welcome screen (V9): selecting notebook from Open Recent … results in initialization cells not evaluating
The following represents an abbreviated example of more complicated code, but it replicates a problem the more complicated code encounters.
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Taking class notes with a Mathematica Notebook
Dose anyone take notes in a technical class using a Mathematica notebook?
If anyone does, how does it compare to paper and are there useful commands? I have a hard time remembering ctrl/alt/esc ...
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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 create a “standard” CDF programmatically?
How can I programmatically create a CDF which is similar to the CDFs created by File -> CDF Export -> Standalone...? ...
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Programmatically writing to a notebook in TraditionalForm
I'm trying to get a Cell to appear in TraditionalForm when using NotebookWrite. Here is the closest I can get:
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Making data persistent, as in xmgrace
I've been using xmgrace for quite a long time as my favorite solution for scientific data manipulation and plotting. These data often come from home-made fortran programs, in the form of, e.g., a ...
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Deleting Print results
While playing around with $Pre and $Post I created this very annoying piece of code:
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how to open Hyperlinked files by default software?
Non-Mathematica formats, e.g. .doc or .txt files, are directly shown in a new notebook when I click on a hyperlink pointing at these objects. But I would rather have (for example) .doc files opened ...
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How to copy code out of notebook to an external text editor without extra line feeds being added?
I am simply trying to copy code from a cell (input cell) in a notebook, to paste the code into a plain text editor, and not have some lines wrap in the middle.
I need to copy the code, as is, to a ...
