Re: Creation of file.m
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- Subject: [mg22412] Re: Creation of file.m
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:40:02 -0500 (EST)
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Bill,
The problem might be be the "scope" of the setting.
Using the option inspector:
1. To set a default option for all notebooks (Globally), the top left box of
the option inspector (after "Show option values for" )must contain
"global".The option setting will be stored in the preferences file. This
will be used unless a notebook has a different setting stored in its own
code - see below.
We normally have the global setting AutoGeneratePackage -> Manual.
2. To store an option for notebook in the notebook's own code, the notebook
must be selected (click in it ), the top bar of the option inspector window
will then contain "Options for <notebook name>.; the top left box of the
option inspector (after "Show option values for" ) must contain "notebook"
The option setting is stored with the notebook.
Any such setting will be used in preference to any Global setting
Call the setting of an option that is actually used the "effective" setting.
As mentioned earlier in the group's responses, when we save a notebook with
an initialization cell and effective setting AutoGeneratePackage -> Manual,
then a panel gives us the choice of saving a separate package file or not:
- saving enters the option AutoGeneratePackage -> Automatic in the
notebook's own code;
- not saving enters AutoGeneratePackage -> Automatic in the noebook's
own code
> By the way, why can we access the apparently same info through
> Edit/Preferences and Format/Options?
The first way gives Global in the top left hand box of the Option Inspector,
the second gives Selection.
Allan
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"Bill Marks" <bmarks at helix.nih.gov> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
> Thanks, Bill Marks
>