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Re: Transparent evalaution of a notebook

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  • Subject: [mg30562] Re: Transparent evalaution of a notebook
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 01:40:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Helge,
Unless you particularly need to have your definitins in a notebook a
convenient way would be to create a new text  file in, for example
        Wolfram Research\Mathematica\4.1\AddOns\ExtraPackages
and simply type your definitions in, like

f[x_,y_]:=x+y;
x=a;
y=b;

Call this file  MyDefinitions.m

Then

<<MyDefinitions`

will load all your definitions.

The extras that are needed for a full package are to do with getting
contexts right and providing standard information and usage messages.



Allan
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"Helge Andersson" <helgea at inoc.chalmers.se> wrote in message
news:9mfmrc$25g$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Dear Mathematica users
>
> Can someone give me an example of a command sequence or functions which
> Opens another notebook and perform the evaluation of one or more cells
> in that notebook.
>
> To be more specific:
>
> I have the notebook abc.nb  where I do some calculations using
> predefined variables, lists and functions which I dont want to define
> in abc.nb.  I have a Notebook called  definitions.nb where I keep my
> definitions of variables, list and functions. When I start to work with
> my calculations in abc.nb, I want to evaluate one cell in abc.nb (the
> first cell for example) which
>
> 1. Opens definitions.nb ,
> 2. Evaluate the cells in definitions.nb
> 3. Close definitions.nb after the evaluation in step 2
>
>
> I should say that the functions in definitions.nb are not so general
> that I want to implement them as packages. I also know that I can use
> one or two evenings reading the help menu but I try this way first as a
> possible time-saver.  I work on Window 2000 machine with Mathematica
> 4.1.
>
>
> Helge Andersson
>
>
> Chalmers University of Technology
> SE-412 96 Sweden
>
>
>




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