Re: Cell background color?
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- Subject: [mg22844] Re: Cell background color?
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 02:51:06 -0500 (EST)
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In article <8c1h0b$q1o at smc.vnet.net>, "Jordan Rosenthal" <jr at ece.gatech.edu> writes: > Let say I evaluate something > > In[18]:= > x + 2 > > Out[18]= > 2 + x > > If I then select the output cell and use the menu "Format...Background > Color...Cell Gray Box", the cell accordingly displays in a gray box. When I > evaluate the input again, the output no longer has the same background > color. > > How can I write an input expression such that its output will always be > formatted with its background color set to"Cell Gray Box"? Each cell in a Mathematica notebook has a style associated with it. This style defines how the cell should look provided that the user has specified no other modifications. When you reevaluate the input, the front end obliterates your prior output and replaces it with a new cell, which uses the Output style. To make Output cells have a different appearance by default, you need to actually change the style's definition. Styles are specified through special notebooks -- called style sheets -- that contain a collection of prototype cells that contain the settings needed to attain the desired appearance. You can find information about how to edit style sheets at this URL: http://documents.wolfram.com/v4/index_0_4_4_1.html It is also available under the Other Information branch of the Mathematica Help Browser. -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.