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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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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Prevent text from wrapping in a notebook
By default in the Notebook interface the text wraps.
Is it possible to prevent this wrapping?
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Programmatically generate packages from notebook files?
Currently, there are two ways I know of to generate a package (.m) file from a notebook file; one is to set the AutoGeneratedPackage option in the Option Inspector, ...
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Saving a notebook without output lines
Is it possible to change the way Mathematica saves so that Out[] lines are never included?
I have a .nb file that processes a ...
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How to sort cells in a notebook based on cell tags?
Suppose I have a notebook with cells tagged with both numbers and words with numbers always list first, and some cells without cell tags e.g.:
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Pasting $\LaTeX$ into a Mathematica notebook
I have read that $\LaTeX$ source can be directly pasted into a Mathematica notebook. However, I have been unsuccessful in this regard. An example of the errors received are:
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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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Automatically counting the number of lines of code in a set of notebooks
How can I automatically count the number of lines of code "Input" existing inside all the notebook files contained in a specified folder?
I know there is the issue of considering or not the automatic ...
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Quickly editing the stylesheet and saving it
I have a private stylesheet I'm using. I edit it by going to the menu Edit->Edit Stylesheet and then clicking on the private stylesheet cell. I can modify whatever I want but it never gets saved.
The ...
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How can Magnify be forced to ignore the notebook's window width?
In a new notebook, I can illustrate how the action of Magnify is cut off by the window width:
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How to make a parallel auto-generated .m package from Initialization cells?
according to the documentation at ref/InitializationCell,
When you first save a notebook that contains initialization cells, you have the option to make a ...
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How do I view initialization (or other invisible) cells in a notebook?
I am looking at someone else's notebook, and when I go to evaluate it, it asks whether I want to evaluate the initialization cells. I would like to look at them first, but "I do not see them here nor ...
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How to set default magnification for all windows
This is certainly a newbie question but I could not find the answer by searching.
I am using Mathematica 8 under Windows 7. I want to use default magnification of 150% for all notebooks and help ...
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Good ways to organize and document collections of mathematica notebooks?
I've now been using Mathematica for about a year, and am starting to get a somewhat unwieldy collection of notebooks. Sometimes I've figured out how to do a particular task in one of them, and want ...
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Knowing when a notebook has changed programmatically
Is there any way I can programatically determine whether a notebook has unsaved edits?
Is that asterisk on the right of the notebook name represented in a notebook option or something, like ...
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259 views
How to pipe a stream to another notebook?
Can I pipe an OutputStream object created by OpenWrite (or similar) to a notebook instead of a file? I am aware that I can use ...
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1answer
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how to easily find location of hidden characters that causes hard to find syntax error in notebook?
For last 30 minutes (and I was lucky today, sometimes I spend 5 times as much time) I have been removing code little by little from my large one cell, (have to be one cell, it is Manipulate demo ...
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Is there a way to separate variables between multiple notebooks?
I often correct homework by checking the calculations in Mathematica. Sometimes you would like to have two solutions open at once. However often defined symbols such as ...
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How can I set a fixed cell height?
I did this often in previous versions of the Mathematica notebook front end. I would have a cell with lots of raw data, e.g. a very long list. The list might go on for pages. I would set the cell ...
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Programmatically copy code so that all output is commented out
UPDATE: The final palette has a new home here! Please test and provide feedback (usability, suggestions, bugs)
A note to the readers and voters: This is intended for community use, so please test the ...
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How to export to HTML and not lose Grid Frame in the generated HTML?
This is a known issue for me with Mathematica. When I export a notebook to HTML, Mathematica loses some decorations such as Grid Frame lines (in grid and like objects).
For example, creating this ...
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Setting up TextStyle with initialization cells in Mathematica 6+
It used to be quite straightforward to change the default settings of a notebook in terms of inputs, outputs, text styles and font sizes in previous versions of Mathematica using initialization cells ...
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How to avoid spaces between numbers when displaying TagBox(es)
The instruction :
DisplayForm[RowBox[List[0,1,Superscript[2,3],Superscript[1,2],a]]]
displays a gap between the first two items of the list
but if one is ...
