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Is it possible to define a new PlotTheme?
Illuminated by @Mr.Wizard's answer, here I provide a complete example of a self-made plot theme, called "Academic". It can be used as a base theme.
The axes ...
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Argument completions for user-defined functions
Before you start using this, be aware that this is all undocumented and unsupported functionality. It may change at any time, it may crash Mathematica, and it may bite you when you least expect it. I ...
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How do I remove the little × that shows up in the frontend when typing?
Thanks to the hint by Jason. It is called AutoMultiplicationSymbol. It can be turned off in the Option Inspector:
It worked. Now ...
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How to get old message formatting in version 11?
We can get old-style messages using
Internal`$MessageMenu = False
Needless to say, this is unsupported and undocumented functionality.
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Programming of a natural language interface
OP seems to be mostly interested in Mathematica's built-in capabilities for grammar definition, parsing, and interpretation, but I think some of the questions asked can be seen and answered within a ...
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1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis
Hope is the last to die. Nine years later, we finally have a native multi-axis implementation.
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Live code templates
Revision history:
v0.8.0 (06-07-2018) VerificationTest template
v0.7.0 (21-02-2018) V10.4 support
As of v0.7.0 code templates should work in V10.4.
Yes, in a beta stage at the moment. Feedback ...
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Creating a custom web API ServiceConnection
Template Notebook
I sunk some time into making a good template notebook for integrating with all this. It lives here:
https://github.com/b3m2a1/mathematica-BTools/blob/master/Resources/Templates/...
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Google Drive API connection: (or how can I build a service connection to an OAuth2 service?)
Code
See this for the main issue that made it take so long to get this up
If you just want the service connection you can get it like this:
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How to efficiently input matrices in Mathematica (compared to what MATLAB offers)
Quick-n-dirty. I dispense with open/close bracket, trivial to put in if it matters:
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1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis
Most compatible solution:
The solutions provided are not compatible with plots that contain labels. Here's a solution with possibility to add options:
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Set spell checking language
To change the DefaultNaturalLanguage for the current notebook for example to "German" one can use
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How can I route edges manually for a Graph?
I would do it like this:
The example graph g:
g = Graph[{1 <-> 2, 2 <-> 3, 3 <-> 1}];
Desired locations of ...
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Can we implement a Neural Network interactively?
Update:
So after adding the missing features I decided to give your actual problem a go. This is what I have:
You'll note a little "Add Layer" ActionMenu ...
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How to make a custom NN layer in Mathematica?
Supporting custom layers is on our to-do list, and should be ready for either 11.2 or 11.3.
For interest: what applications do you want custom layers for? And how performant do you need your custom ...
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Is it possible to change/customize some conversions done by TeXForm?
You could use my TeXUtilities package:
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ShowGroupOpener's behavior change in 11.3
TL;DR;
To set ShowGroupOpener on a global level, previously done by CurrentValue[$FrontEnd, ShowGroupOpener] = True, now use:
<...
Kuba♦
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1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis
Here is just a quick update of J.M.'s code to use some newer (read undocumented) functions in the Charting`context.
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Create new notebook at fixed size
If you don't want to modify MenuSetup.tr you can evaluate:
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Kuba♦
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Set spell checking language
I do not know where there is a way to set this in the Preferences dialog, but it is changeable in the Options Inspector: search for "DefaultNaturalLanguage" and change the value of the drop-down. For ...
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Receive macOS notification when evaluation finishes
A quick Google search returned:
How can I trigger a Notification Center notification from an AppleScript or shell script?
Based on this, we can use
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1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis
Using ResourceFunction["CombinePlots"], you can combine arbitrary plots into two-axes plots, without the need to create a new version for every type of ...
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Mathematica in degrees mode
Possibly a bad idea for the reasons mentioned in previous messages, but you could do something like the following:
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Can I implement something like the old documentation help browser?
Update
This code is no longer the most up-to-date. The properly up-to-date code is in the package on GitHub.
For a run-down of the changes between this and that see the discussion between b3m2a1 and ...
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How can I automatically generate all the front-end settings for a function?
The answer is a qualified yes.
Yes, we can do all of this, but it won't be as finely tuned as if we did it by hand. There are 4 things we need to handle, "usage" ...
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How can I create a help button that looks more "professional"?
Why not just use the graphic in the question, or any other images that you like:
Use ImageSize to control the final size of the button:
An alternative, that I use ...
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Argument completions for user-defined functions
This can be accomplished with the AddCodeCompletion function in the function repository.
Evaluate the following piece of code:
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How do I create annotations for functions?
Edit
Karsten 7. suggested a better method in the comments, which does not require a modification of any system files and can be used under English language setting. It works on my 10.2 installation ...
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What is "MemoryMonitor"?
I think it is a vestigial artifact of older days when systems had only a few megabytes of memory and Mathematica was always in danger of running out of kernel memory. I don't think it makes any ...
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