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Re: Any book for the frontend?

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  • Subject: [mg19166] Re: Any book for the frontend?
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:59:08 -0400
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2.8.10 below should be 2.10.8

> Be sure to read Section 2.8.10 of _The Mathematica Book_ (Third
> or Fourth Edition), namely the section titled "Styles and the
> Inheritance of Option Settings."

Allan
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P.J. Hinton <paulh at monon.wolfram.com> wrote in message
news:7ob8im$3g5 at smc.vnet.net...
> In article <7o5gk8$rj6 at smc.vnet.net>, "Kwankyu Lee"
<leekk at math.sogang.ac.kr> writes:
>
> >I want any book about Mathematica frontend for Windows.
> >I have difficulty in customizing the frontend and notebook.
>
> What do you mean by "customize"?
>
> Users who report troubles with customization run into troubles
> because they are not aware of the scopes at which settings
> may apply.  They spend their time tweaking the Option Inspector
> with the scope set to "global", but their efforts are in vain
> because the setting they are trying to modify is actually set
> at the style sheet or notebook levels.
>
> Be sure to read Section 2.8.10 of _The Mathematica Book_ (Third
> or Fourth Edition), namely the section titled "Styles and the
> Inheritance of Option Settings."
>
> If you can post some specific, precise statments of the things
> you want to modify, we may be able to suggest some ways of
> getting it done.  There are a number of specific examples on
> the Wolfram Research Technical Support FAQ site
>
> http://support.wolfram.com/
>
> --
> P.J. Hinton
> Mathematica Programming Group           paulh at wolfram.com
> Wolfram Research, Inc.
> Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.
>



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