Questions tagged [notebooks]
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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Converting Wolfram Language Scripts (.wls) into PDFs
I have just discovered the free (as in free beer) Wolfram Engine, coming with a generous licence. After playing with Mathematica for a while, and missing the notebook feature, I would like to generate ...
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Listing most recently modified sections in Notebook?
I'd like to get a clickable list of all "Sections" that have been recently modified in my notebook, grouped by day of modification. "Modified" Section means, some cell under that ...
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Export Notebook as Text (in 13.3 &14)
What is the best way to export a notebook as readable plaintext - while preserving as much structure as possible? The motivation here is the need to bulk-ingest notebooks and chunk them (for use in ...
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How to write code to close the current open Notebook document after 10 seconds?
How to write code to close the current open Notebook document after 10 seconds?
SessionSubmit[ScheduledTask[NotebookClose[], Quantity[10, "Seconds"]]]
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Automating the process of restarting mathematica (and all open notebooks) after the operating system updates
The hassle of restarting Mathematica by hand after a required operating system restart makes it tempting to repeatedly delay operating system updates, which is a security risk.
Has anyone written ...
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How to find large cells in a Mathematica notebook?
I occasionally end up with a notebook that is excessively slow in the front-end because of its size. Often it's some animation. How can I use Mathematica to find the large cell responsible for this?
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How to write mixed fraction in text cell?
I could not find any especial typesetting for mixed fractions in Pallets.
In text cell, when I put fraction $\frac{1}{2}$ and after put $5%$ in front of it it automatically becomes $5 * \frac{1}{2}$.
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What's the difference between chat-enabled and chat-driven?
I opened one of each and they seem identical to me.
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How to write code realizing this manual operation? [closed]
I want to use the output of N[E,15]. However the output is really 2.71828182845904523533978449066641588615`15. if you copy the ...
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How to add wolfram mathematica notebook on github? [duplicate]
I am setting up a GitHub repository with the notebooks I created during my master's project. Among them, some are from Mathematica. Is there a better way to upload the files? Because the way I ...
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What's the effect of SyntaxForm option in StandardForm boxes of Superscript?
Consider the following sample:
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Defining cell background colours by default [duplicate]
Is there a way to define the background colour of new cells by default, so that whenever I create a new cell in a Mathematica notebook, it is automatically shaded accordingly?
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Mathematica setting that shows the notebook FPS in the titlebar
There is a setting/preference that allows displaying the current frames per second (FPS) in the title bar. What setting is that?
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Is it possible to programatically create new notebook without the default top Toolbar (the one introduced in 13.1)?
I know how this can be hide using via the UI. But is there a way to create a New Notebook using CreateDocument[{}] that does not contain the toolbar?
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InitializationCellEvaluation does not work
I have a notebook with a single cell that I want to start running when I launch open the notebook. I have,
formatted the cell as an initialization cell
In the Options Inspector, Selected "...
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In Mathematica 13.3 are chat notebooks enabled by default?
I read that Mathematica 13.3 supports chat notebooks. I have installed Mathematica 13.3 but do not see a way to create chat-enabled notebooks. Do I need to enable it? If it is enabled by default, on ...
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Chat block divider in a Chat-Enabled Notebook using Swedish keyboard
(I'm using Mathematica 13.3.0 on a Linux Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS, using a Swedish keyboard.)
In a Chat-Enabled Notebook, the "~" (the tilde character) is used to create a Chat block divider/...
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Error when creating Chat Enabled Notebook
I loaded the new MMA 13.3 and tried following https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/06/llm-tech-and-a-lot-more-version-13-3-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/
The website states "The most ...
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How can a Chat-Enabled Notebook be set up to automatically use Wolfram Language Evaluator?
In the release blog post for v13.3 Stephen Wolfram gives the following example for a Chat-Enabled Notebook.
As it appears there is automatic evaluation, e.g., <...
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In a Notebook, How can I set every cell to be an Initialization cell?
At present, I do this by manually setting every cell in a notebook to be Initialization cell. There must be a better way!
When I finish work one day and re-open the notebook the next day, I want all ...
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Palette that gets single keystroke as input
I could find many examples of user-made Palette with many buttons in it.
And drawing-tools Palette is not user-made, but it accepts a single keystroke as input.
(In ...
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Implementation of rainbow style for multiple cells in a notebook
We are aware that a user may utilize 'ColorFunction' gradients such as 'Rainbow' for plotting.
How can we implement a gradient style as a rainbow spectrum to multiple cells in which there are multiple ...
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Insert a cell to "push" an output cell down so that my next output will not overwrite the last output [duplicate]
Normally when you evaluate a function, its result overwrites previous results. I would like to insert a cell between my function so and the last output (push down the last result} so that the new ...
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Remove output cells when committing to GitHub
When committing Mathematica notebooks to GitHub, is there a way to automatically remove output cells (as some "filter")? I know that for Jupyter notebooks, there is a Python package ...
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Problem re-activating an old notebook [duplicate]
I have used many notebooks.
I know how to select function and variable definitions I want to use in future (new) notebooks. How do I then set them up to be an Initialisation for new notebooks?
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How to import a variable from one notebook to another notebook?
I am a new user of Mathematica. I want to import a variable from notebook-1 to notebook-2 where I am currently using. I have searched for Mathematica repository but unfortunately I could not find an ...
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Save animation for Animator
I have a notebook with a dynamic ParametricPlot and wanted to save it as an animation, but nothing seems to work. I tried with other local objects (A2) but somehow ...
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Notebook magnification - two independent values
It seems there are two independent, equally influential values those control mathematica notebook magnification.
Just like volume bars in a certain media player(program) and volume bar in tray bar(...
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Creating a size changing image in output cell
In the following video, there are Image 1 and Image 2.
The image size of Image 1 changes ...
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How to completely control the displayed title of a window?
I can't quite seem to find a way to accomplish this task. I want to display an image in its own window with a custom title. This code almost accomplishes the task:
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How get this kind of group opener?
Some notebooks of mine have Section (and Subsection) cells formatted like the following, so that clicking on the icon to the right of the Section's title opens the entire group of cells in that ...
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Notebook contents replaced with Null
I opened a notebook that I had recently made only to discover that all cells except the first one (an initialization cell) have been removed and all titles/subtitles except the first one have been ...
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Distinguish three fraction forms (feature stronger than Hold)
This question can not be typed easily, using mathematica stackexchange interface.
So here is a GIF file :
My question is : Can we construct a function f whose ...
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Prepare notebook for students [duplicate]
I'm preparing a notebook with some code for students to evaluate. I always check all the code myself while I make this notebook, and afterwards, I evaluate everything again to double-check. Of course, ...
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Error when trying to do TeX input with ImportString[]
I got this information from here (Last line of the details section): https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/menuitem/InlineTeXInput.html
My code:
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What is the difference between code cell and input cell?
What is the difference between code cell and input cell?
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How does cell style work with cell form?
I am writing some text in Mathematica that includes equations. I have an option for equation box by entering ctrl+( but it seems that is designed for inline math ...
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How to write Boxes to a notebook with NotebookWrite?
I would like to write Boxes to a Cell to a notebook (e.g., FractionBox, SuperscriptBox, etc).
Here is what I've tried:
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Save and minimise a notebook
When working on a project I often have useful modules in another notebook. I like to compile these modules and then leave them available for modifications and new modules.
Here is the code I use
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How to programmatically create a notebook from a list of Input Cell[]'s with syntax highlighting?
consider the following list of Cell[]'s:
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NotebookImport refuses to import simple notebook on Wolfram Cloud due to InterpretationFailure
I've been trying to convert one of my notebooks to text on Wolfram Cloud via the use of NotebookImport but unfortunately it just seems to flat-out not work and I ...
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Copy/Paste MMA code from PDF into Notebook garbles special characters
I have a PDF which contains Mathematica code and plain text. It was probably generated directly from one or more Notebooks. I am running MMA 13.1 on Ubuntu, and when I copy/paste any of the plain text ...
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Why does `MemoryInUse` keep increasing?
Consider MemoryInUse. After kernel initiation, I have noticed that its value keeps increasing, even when not evaluating any cell, as seen
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Why does font weight sometimes lighten in certain Input cells? [closed]
Why do font weights sometimes change in cells, where they evolve from a regular weight to a dimmer or lighter font weight? The notebook I have open is not heavy as it only has a few cells. Also, there ...
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How to check that a user-input of a list of CellObject-s actually belong to the EvaluationNotebook?
Suppose a user inputs a list of CellObject-s to operate on. How might one check these objects to determine if they actually belong to the ...
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How can I change the default cell type in Mathematica from Input to Code?
Every time I type something into a notebook, I am compelled to first change the cell type from Input to Code, and then unset the ...
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ChangeCellStyle function works in one direction but not in reverse
This post is a continuation of an earlier Question, How to programmatically change CellStyle of all Cells from "Input" to "Code"? but with a ...
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