Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
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- Subject: [mg38121] Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins)
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 04:33:29 -0500 (EST)
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Andrzej, I have Mathematica 4.2 installed on my upgraded PowerTower Pro(G4 800Mhz) with Mac OS 10.1.5 and do not have the problem you are experiencing. Brian Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp> wrote in message news:<as5qm1$nk0$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > As a follow up on this issue: > I reinstalled Mathematica 4.1 for Mac OS X and found that I still have > this problem. On the other hand Allan Hayes informed me that he did not > have it on Mathematica 4.2 under Windows 98. I then tried it myself, > with Mathematica 4.1 under Windows 98, and indeed I found I can copy > and paste groups of cells and the cell structure is preserved. They do > not get merged into a single cell with all the Mathematica markup > visible as they do in my case under Mac OS X 10.2. I would like to know > if other Mac OS X users have the same problem. If not, it may be caused > by something weird in my installation, although it seems unlikely as I > am not experiencing any other problems. I have not yet tried reporting > this to Technical Support yet since I am not sure if other Mac OS X > users are also experiencing the same behaviour, but if it is a bug it's > an awful one. > > > Andrzej > > On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:21 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > > > I am having an extremely frustrating time with one "feature" of > > Mathematica 4.2 which I swear was not present in earlier versions. It > > find is quite dreadful and yet none seems to have complained about it > > so far so that I feel that perhaps I missing something obvious. > > Anyway, this is the problem. I have two notebooks with a large number > > of cells each. I want to copy some cells from one notebook to the > > other. I am sure in earlier versions it used to be possible to select > > several contiguous cells by shift clicking and then paste them into > > another notebook. You would then get several cells of the same type as > > you copied. However now (at least on Mac OS X) this seems impossible. > > What happens is that if you select a several cells or a cell group and > > past into another notebook you get a messy expression contained in a > > single cell from which it does not appear possible to easily recover > > the original cells. I have tired using various Copy As but have not > > found anything that works. The only thing that works is copying and > > pasting individual cells, which is of course very time consuming. > > Is this also what happens on other platforms? I am sure it was not the > > case in earlier versions, and if so was this an intentional change? It > > so it seems to me as bad an idea as I have come across in many years. > > Can anyone explain? > > > > Andrzej Kozlowski > > > >