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Re: Package Puzzlers?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg35759] Re: Package Puzzlers?
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:22:06 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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• Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

you want to preprare a package with the notebook frontend ?
*and* you have not read

http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/packages/writing/make.html

especial item 2 of the url above will help you.

Regards
  Jens

AES wrote:
> 
> I want to make some simple packages. Not even much worried about
> contexts or protection, since all symbols likely to be global anyway.
> 
> But I would like to put multiple cells including notebook type header
> cells in these packages -- primarily, I suppose, because this makes the
> code so much easier to edit and more readable, for me anyway, than using
> (*  *) style comments.
> 
> 1)  All the package demos and templates I've seen seem to be single
> cells (though that's not always very clearly stated).  Do packages have
> to be single cells?  Or can they have multiple cells, including header
> cells?
> 
> 2)  How come compound expressions in these single-cell packages don't
> seem to need semicolons between the expressions?
> 
> 3)  As an alternative to a package, suppose I just  want a cell in
> notebook A to execute the entirely of another notebook B, again with no
> context concerns, all symbols global, and notebooks A and B both open on
> the desktop.
> 
> What exactly do I need to put in notebook A to do this?  (I can read all
> about the NotebookCreate, NotebookWrite, NotebookFind commands -- I just
> can't find a "NotebookRun" or "NotebookExecute" command.)
> 
> Mac PB G3, OS 9.1, Mathematica 4.0.