Re: creating packages
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg12190] Re: creating packages
- From: asari@math.uiuc.edu (ASARI Hirotsugu)
- Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 03:08:41 -0400
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <6hp98a$cql@smc.vnet.net> <6i0tf8$8n0@smc.vnet.net>
In article <6i0tf8$8n0@smc.vnet.net>, paulh@monon.wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton) writes: > In article <6hp98a$cql@smc.vnet.net>, steve <fisk@polar.bowdoin.edu> > writes: > > |> I would like to create a package from a notebook. |> I followed the > directions in the Mathematica book, but the |> resulting m file was > not a package. After applying |> "Save-as-special|package" all the > |> expressions appeared to be enclosed in comments. |> > |> Could someone explain how to create a package from a |> notebook. > > When you export the contents of a notebook as a package, only > initialization cells are left uncommented. To give a cell the > initialization property, select the cell's bracket, and then click on > the front end menu command sequence > > Cell -> Cell Properties -> Initialization Cell On a related note, I would like to introduce a new Head in a package, and would like to implement a test only on objects with this new Head. The problem is that the overhead for the test is rather costly, and I would like to have some sort of toggle switch to turn testing on and off. I looked at $Pre, but didn't work well. Any advice? -- ASARI Hirotsugu // http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~asari/ finger://math.uiuc.edu/asari // ph://ns.uiuc.edu/asari "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." --Kurt Vonnegut