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Change units in PlanetData["Earth", "Diameter"] from miles to km
You can use the UnitSystem option of EntityProperty,
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How to enter underscripts in 12.2?
In Mathematica 12.2 the way to enter underscripts is Ctrl+Shift+, (comma). At least on macOS.
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Is there a tool for editing the spelling dictionary?
For removing a misspelled word from the correct word list, go to Edit->Preferences, select the Advanced tab, select Open Option Inspector, lookup/search for SpellingDictionaries, click on the edit ...
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What are the conseqences of setting TrackCellChangeTimes to False? How are CellChangeTimes useful?
I know there are discussions on this site about version control, etc. And it appears that CellChangeTimes are used for this purpose, but how
They have nothing to do with version control.
You might ...
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Inserting label to a Plot
For a different approach, beginning with version 12 you can use the EXPERIMENTAL function GeometricScene
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Mathematica 12.1 is treating all my cells as raw texts by default
These strange behaviors can be produced by:
SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], FrontEnd`ReturnCreatesNewCell -> True] (or, in MMA 12+, just ...
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Is there a tool for editing the spelling dictionary?
Answer by ciao shows a way to edit user-supplied list of correct words via GUI. The same can be done via setting $FrontEnd option:
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Including Mathematica code in every new notebook automaticaly
I recommend creating a palette with a button that can insert the code for you. Then save the palette and make it easy to access through the palettes menu.
Create palette
Suppose your code is (for ...
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Configuration to limit time spent on formatting output
Usually by the time the front end gets something, aborting or interrupting interactively is useless, so I won't suggest that. IF I suspect a problem beforehand, I would use ...
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How do I configure Mathematica so that the "font" window opens with a given key press?
For a single key combination change
MenuItem["&Font...", "FontPanel"]
to e.g.
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`FunctionLayer` will calculate a distance matrix
We can compute the distance matrix by explicitly computing the pairwise distances.
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Mathematia UI displays '$Failed' in several places
I reached out to Customer Support. They weren't able to identify the root of the problem directly, but they suggested I try using KDE instead of Gnome.
At this point I was somewhat desperate for a ...
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Backup configuration (Linux)
The directory you are mentioning is what $UserBaseDirectory on a linux machine usually is set to. AFAIK the content of that is identical (despite some ...
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Is there a way to make the "Details" section of the Documentation expanded by default?
Based on Kuba's findings in this and this answers and also thanks to user1950580 who uncovered FrontEnd`Private`SetCurrentValue (his answer was the only place where ...
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How do I remove all extensions and plugins associated with Mathematica on macOS?
Deleting the app bundle (Mathematica.app) is sufficient to remove all components of Mathematica itself, including the Spotlight indexer and the QuickLook plugin. ...
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Missing dependencies for NodeJS reported by FindExternalEvaluators["NodeJS"]
I encountered similar problems and I hope the following may help you.
The relevant paclet is ExternalEvaluate_NodeJS, which can be found in:
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Problem with setting up ChatObject[]: possible conflict?
Let me record here the answer I got on the chat.
As @RohitNamjoshi @kirkus explained to me, when you create an OpenAI account, you get some number of free API calls over 30 days. After that, you have ...
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Add Edge Label to certain edge in a bipartite graph
You can typeset a directed edge between nodes x and y as x -> y or ...
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How to use InputForm for printed and output expressions in console mode
I think what you want is:
$Post = ToString[#, FormatType -> InputForm] &;
But this does not affect Print[]. Of course, ...
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Change large output background color in ReverseColor stylesheet
Closely related: How to customize the package editor interface?
You can create a ReverseColor.nb in \$UserBaseDirectory/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Stylesheets, customize it and point it to ReverseColor.nb ...
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Accessing my init.m from another machine?
initURL = CloudExport["$myStart = 42;", "Text", "init.m", Permissions -> "Public"]
and then
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How to specify notebook's Saveable option from command line?
Try putting this in an initialization cell in your notebook.
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Including Mathematica code in every new notebook automaticaly
Place the code in your init.m file. It will then be run each time the kernel is started. On Linux the init.m file is in ~/.Mathematica/Kernel/. I forget where it is on Windows but just look at the ...
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