Re: Problem using init.m to create notebook in front end
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- Subject: [mg15865] Re: Problem using init.m to create notebook in front end
- From: "Dale Horton" <daleh>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:40:26 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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See http://www.wolfram.com/support/FrontEnds/Options/ChangeDefaultStyles.html -Dale Robert Lawrence wrote in message <7952nk$kb5 at smc.vnet.net>... >I have created a stylesheet named "RL01 stylesheet.nb" and have placed >it in the ...\FrontEnd\StyleSheets directory. > >If, in an open notebook, I execute the command >NotebookCreate[StyleDefinitions->"RL01 stylesheet.nb"], a new, untitled >notebook is created using the specified stylesheet. > >I would like the front end, upon startup, to automatically do the same >thing. I.e., I would like the default notebook -- the one that >appears when the front end is opened upon loading Mathematica -- to be >a notebook that uses the specified stylesheet. > >Toward this end, I have inserted the command >NotebookCreate[StyleDefinitions->"RL01 stylesheet.nb"] in my init.m >file. However, this does not have the desired effect; I just get the >standard default untitled notebook upon startup. (My init.m file is >clearly functioning, since all other commands in the file are being >executed properly.) > >I am puzzled as to why this command works when executed from within an >existing open notebook, yet seems to have no effect in the init.m file. > >I am aware that I can use the Option Inspector to achieve a somewhat >similar result, but I would like to do this through the init.m file >instead. > >I am running Mathematica 3.0 under Windows 95. > >Any advice would be appreciated. > >Robert Lawrence >