Re: Creation of file.m
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- Subject: [mg22397] Re: Creation of file.m
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:39:45 -0500 (EST)
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In article <89cec8$bt1 at smc.vnet.net>, Bill Marks <bmarks at helix.nih.gov> writes: > Recently I found from this group how to create file.m from file.nb if > I didn't do it initially. I thought the method was to select the > notebook and use Format/Options to set > NotebookOptions/FileOptions/AutoGeneratedPackage to Automatic. I > think this is what worked for me last week. Now in a similar > notebook having initialization cells this does not work. When set > AutoGeneratedPackage to Automatic, Evaluate Initialization and save > the notebook, no file.m appears. What have I forgotten? > > By the way, why can we access the apparently same info through > Edit/Preferences and Format/Options? You may have forgotten the significance of the scope settings on the Option Inspector dialog. If you access the dialog through the menu command Format -> Option Inspector, the Option Inspector will appear with the scope indicator set to "selection". This scope is of relevance only when you have selected a cell, a group of cells, or the contents of a cell. It is most likely that changing the value of AutoGeneratedPackage with the "selection" scope setting has no effect. You need to change the scope indicator to "notebook" to have the option applied to the notebook itself. Clicking on the Edit -> Preferences menu command summons the Option inspector dialog with the scope set to "global", so it is not totally correct to equate this with the Format -> Option Inspector menu command. If the concept of option scope and inheritance is unfamiliar to you, please read over the following references. http://documents.wolfram.com/v4/MainBook/2_10/S2.10.8.html http://smc.vnet.net/mathgroup/archive/mg19458 -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.