Re: Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
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- Subject: [mg38085] Re: [mg38066] Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
- From: Alfredo Octavio <aoctavio at mac.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 04:29:03 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I can report I do have this problem with Mathematica 4.2 in Mac OS X 10.2.2. I can select contiguous cells using shift and not contiguous cells (using command) but copying them results in one huge cell as you reported. I think is time for a Tech Support report Ciao, aov On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 03:09 PM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > 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 >> >> > > > ---- Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends. ---- Alfredo Octavio,Patilla.com PGP Key ID: 0x6531FC6D mailto: alfredo at octavio.net http://alfredo.octavio.net At: N 10¢ª23.811', W 066¢ª58.953' ----