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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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?
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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How to refer to calling notebook instead of my personal include? / detector for high-memory-usage cells
Along the lines of a couple previous posts, I coded this function to show you where in your notebook your biggest space-wasters are. Useful for when your file is becoming huge and unmanageable for ...
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How to acquire the background color and font color of output cells?
The following is how I grab the general colors used for an EvaluationNotebook but how does one target the colors to be used when creating an ...
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Modify notebook style through code [duplicate]
As you can see, now the "1","2","3","4","5" of this notebook are all "Code".
Now I want to change them all to "Text",I can do ...
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Logging intermediate results to notebook
I would like to add the following logging functionality to a package I'm writing:
For functions whose (intermediate) results could be important there should be an option to let them write these ...
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Remove background colors within cells
I've gotten in the habit of changing the background color of modified chunks of code using the Format - Background Color menu on the selected code. E.g.
Now I'd ...
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Maximum number of concurrent notebooks
I am running MMA v13.2 on Windows 10, x86.
If I open two different notebooks, everything is fine.
Try opening a third and it displays
Of course, the operation fails because the software is already ...
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Are there repositories or organized collections of mathematica notebooks?
I was wondering if there was one place where researchers upload their mathematica notebooks used for specialized research once if they choose to make it public
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Code to delete all output in a notebook
I am looking for a code I can paste at the beginning of a notebook to delete all the output cells so that when I execute the "Evaluate notebook" command, all the output cells are also ...
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Documentation Search : google-like (pokygon -> polygon)
If you search for "pokygon" in google.com, then google automatically fix error, and searches for "polygon".
Like google.com, if you search for "pokygon" in mathematica (V ...
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NDSolve doesn't evaluate unless I re-evaluate the output manually
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** You can see my full program here. Go ahead and plug it into your notebook. You should have everything you need there. Password: OrbitCode
I am working ...
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Save/Export "any" mathematica window in .nb
Can I call this (a tutorial page) a mathematica notebook?
At least it is a kind of mathematica window, which looks like a common .nb file.
Is it possible to Save/Export this mathematica window in .nb ...
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Entire process of "hyperlink of paclet" to "location of real file"?
Hyperlink[AAAAA, "paclet:ref/ModularInverse"]
AAAAA
If I click AAAAA, then a tutorial notebook for ModularInverse.nb ...
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How to pass styles arguments to Style from a wrapper function's argument?
The user-defined symbol styx works fine for style argument values of Automatic and ...
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How do you evaluate a notebook and save updated output from another notebook?
I am trying to open a notebook and evaluate all the cells, then resave that notebook with the updated outputs.
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How to get output in MatrixForm in this context?
The following code implements matrix arithmetic:
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Enums in ONE text cell of a notebook?
Is it possible to have an enumeration as an integral part of a text cell, so that they all together form one cell?
Reason for this question: I would like to have a text cell (e.g. for a theorem) and ...
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How to write a string to a notebook
Apparently I'm having a problem even asking my question correctly and getting my edits to appear, so I'm asking the question once again. Hopefully it will go through and I'll get a specific answer.
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Writing a line of text to an open notebook
I realize this is a simple question, but I'm relatively new to Mathematica programming.
I have created a Mathematica Notebook called Index.nb which is open on the desktop in Mathematica
I want to ...
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Which Mathematica version created/saved notebook
If a notebook is opened in a version of Mathematica that is older than the version that created/saved it, an alert window is displayed stating "This notebook was created in a more recent version ...
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How do I know which kernel is handling which .nb file? [closed]
OS : window 10
Mathematica : v12.2
By my mistake, I opened another mathematica kernel, not knowing a kernel was already running.
I created a lot of .nb files and worked on them in another kernel,
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Why do two images of same ImageDimensions display very differently in notebook?
I've downloaded two images from the internet. They are identical sizes, yet they are displayed quite differently in the notebook.
Why?
Here's the example:
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Mouse cursor disappears( Mathematica 13.1)
I have been using Mathematica on Ubuntu for a while now. I have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and MMA 13.1. I can't see the mouse cursor on the MMA notebook. I had the same problem with MMA 13.0. So, I updated it ...
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How might one create a Button that wraps everything hilghlighted with mouse with double quotes similar to Comment/Uncomment?
I find typing doublequotes around characters to create strings a bit annoying because it always slows me down. The doublequotation marks lie right at my achilles heel on keyboards. It's too close to ...
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Change the default name of a new notebook from Untitled-*?
I'd like to change the default name of a new notebook to, say, StringJoin[{RandomWord[],".nb"}].
There is a hint how one might do this in $InstallationDirectory/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/...
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Create a notebook with no menu bar
I would like to create a notebook with a specific name and no menu bar. The following code:
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How to convert a Markdown file into a Mathematica notebook
How to convert a Markdown file (or text) into a Mathematica notebook?
For example, easy conversion of comprehensive MSE posts is desirable.
Possible approaches ordered according to their convenience:
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Create and copy whole cell before NotebookApply
I have created a button with a NotebookApply associated, something similar to the following
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How do I unlock a Mathematica Notebook?
I downloaded Wolfram's Intro to Mathematica in Notebook format. I like to experiment as I study but you can't edit the notebooks. They are locked for some reason. So I still have to open a work ...
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Notebook won't save
Running Mathematica 13.0 (home edition) on macOS Monterey Version 12.5
I worked on an existing notebook this morning and saved the notebook at 11:05 AM without incident.
After further work, some 20 ...
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No vertical mouse scrolling in version 11.3
I am using Mathematica version 11.3 on Windows 10 and cannot scroll vertically through the text of a notebook using the mouse, the screen content simply is fixed. In Mathematica version 10 there is no ...
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Any practical benefit of preserving notebook history?
Yesterday I tried to figure out why my Mathematica file reached a gigantic size of 54 MB. By deleting, it would seem, all the graphs and tables with the results of calculations, I was able to reduce ...
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notebook converted to strange format
Somehow all code in a notebook turned into stuff like this. How can I reverse it back to normal code?
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Creating Picture-in-Picture functionality by Attaching a Notebook to a Notebook using AttachCell[]
I use Mathematica for math lectures at my school. I would like to find a way to attach a secondary notebook to a primary notebook using AttachCell[]. The idea is to have picture-in-picture (PIP) ...
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What properties make a valid CellID?
The documentation for CellID only mentions that it will be a number. But what kind of number? Can it be a real number with a decimal? How about a negative number?
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How can a Style Cell be safely programmatically appended to the Notebook Stylesheet at (Format -> Edit -> Stylesheet)
The purpose of this is to append a DockedCell style definition to the list of cells inside Edit Stylesheet without deleting any ...
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Cannot find DockedCells with Cells or NotebookFind
Request 1: A workaround for Cells or NotebookFind needs to be found for locating and returning the ...
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