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| bio | website | wolfram.com |
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| location | Chesterfield, MO | |
| age | 41 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
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I've been with Wolfram Research in some capacity since 1993, and have worked on the Mathematica front end since 1996. While Wolfram tolerates and even occasionally encourages my appearances in user forums like this one, my words (especially the stupid ones) are my own, and I don't speak for Wolfram in an official capacity.
Fun facts: I also like games of all sorts, and I'm a competitive Scrabble® player. I've written various sorts of crossword game-related utilities (some fun, some dead ends, some serious) in Mathematica, and consulted briefly on Wolfram|Alpha's word game content. I also contributed UI code to an open source crossword game simulator called Quackle which is quite the thing in the competitive player community.
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Feb 17 |
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Alternative Math Font @Szabolcs In the next major release of Mathematica, I anticipate there will be support for the multi-lingual plane characters in MathLink, but not in the kernel or FE. It's a start, but probably not helpful for you. Sorry. The good news is that the infrastructure updates I've discussed here help to lay the foundation for multi-lingual plane support. |
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Feb 17 |
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Alternative Math Font @Mr.Wizard Yes, it'll be a resource with similar sorts of information. When the time comes, I'll be happy to discuss the particulars. |
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Feb 15 |
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Alternative Math Font This resource file is going to undergo a major overhaul in a future release, incidentally. Unicode support in Mathematica mostly predates Unicode support in operating systems, and some things are going to be changing. So don't expect this file format to be future-proofed. |
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Feb 15 |
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Alternative Math Font The - sign indicates that we shouldn't be using the Mathematica fonts when we're in Greece. The Mathematica fonts are just a nightmare if you actually want to communicate in Greek, but Unicode makes no distinction between mathematical and lingual uses of Greek (except for epsilon, which evolved into two separate characters...and don't think that didn't cause a stir back in the day when the Unicode committee screwed it up, then majorly broke backward compatibility to fix it). I discovered recently that the "in-Greece" feature didn't seem to be working as expected on Mac v9, so YMMV. |
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Feb 15 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Feb 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 15 |
answered | Exclude Sections/Subsections/… from evaluation |
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Feb 13 |
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Why is Mathematica limiting the execution time of my calculation? The fact that it's in a button is the entire question. None of your code matters. The question could be boiled down to "Why does Button["wait", Pause[20]; Print["done"]] not complete"? The answer to which is that you should add the option Method->"Queued" as an option to the Button. |
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Feb 10 |
answered | Is there a “GrabHand” and “OpenHand” MouseAppearance in Mathematica? |
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Feb 6 |
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How to avoid font substitution with Mathematica fonts? @abwatson I should think they'd be able to use embedded fonts, yes. But I don't claim to understand publishers. |
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Feb 6 |
answered | How to Initiate a queued evaluation from a Dynamic GUI without using a Button |
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Feb 6 |
answered | Why is MenuCommandKey not working in my stylesheet? |
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Feb 5 |
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From notebook,how can I change variable value with in .m file dynamically? I started to answer this, but I gave up because the bad assumptions are just too deeply ingrained in the question. DynamicModule is a localization construct. You can't access DynamicModule variables from outside of the code contained in DynamicModule. You can't take a Part of a DynamicModule and expect it to make any kind of sense. If you haven't, you should really read all of the documentation linked to from the Tutorials drop-down of the DynamicModule documentation in-product. |
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Feb 5 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 4 |
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FontSubstitutions: how do they work? @cormullion And yes, I can reproduce your problem with the Mac v9 version (I think it works elsewhere). It does look like FontSubstitutions is not working correctly on Mac. |
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Feb 4 |
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FontSubstitutions: how do they work? @cormullion You may find it easier to experiment with FontSubstitutions by using the selector syntax form for options like this: CurrentValue[$FrontEnd, {FontSubstitutions, "Bodoni"}] . You can also use assign values by putting the CurrentValue expression on the left-hand side of an equal sign. |
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Feb 4 |
revised |
Moving From Dynamic Module to Manipulate added 1232 characters in body |
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Feb 4 |
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Moving From Dynamic Module to Manipulate @DavidCarraher Sorry, I had a typo/oversight in my original answer which made the resulting code not clear. I've edited and just included the entire code, along with a slight clarifying statement about the nature of the edit. |
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Feb 4 |
revised |
Moving From Dynamic Module to Manipulate added 1232 characters in body |
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Feb 3 |
revised |
Strange ::usage behavior in v9 Typo |
