Re: How to save all the preferences easily?
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- Subject: [mg34268] Re: How to save all the preferences easily?
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 05:54:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Vladimir,
You may be able to do what you want by using menu>Edit>Preferences.
This will give you the Option Inspector with scope set to global, which
means that if you alter some settings
(for example make Background->RBGColor[1,0,0]) and then click Apply, then
the new settings will be used in notebooks there after ( unless overridden
by settings for individual notebooks made with the scope set to notebook.
Any non-default settings will have small ball on their left; the default
setting can be restored by double clicking on the ball.
Another possibility is make your own style sheet:
Go to the file at address
ToFileName[{$TopDirectory, "SystemFiles", "FrontEnd",
"StyleSheets"}]
Then, for example,
Add a copy of Default.nb with name MyDefault.nb.
Open the MyDefault.nb
Make any changes that you want, for example make the cell Prototype
for style: "Notebook" yellow by
either
- looking at its cell expression with menu>Format>Show Expression adding the
option Background->RBGColor[1,1,0]; reformatting with menu>Format>Show
Expression
or
- selecting the cell; using menu>Format>Option Inspector to get the Option
Inspector with scope set to Selection; using Cell Options> DisplayOptions >
Background to set the color and then clicking apply.
then save the style sheet.
You will, I think, have to reload Mathematica to be able to use the new
stile sheet: easily done for a selected open notebook by menu>Format>Style
Sheet.
If you actually want MyDefault to be the default then use the Option
Inspector with scope Global and setting Global Options>File
Locations>DefaultStyleDefinitions -> "MyDefault.nb". The new default will be
used after Mathematica has been reloaded.
Allan
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"Vladimir Bondarenko" <vvb at mail.strace.net> wrote in message
news:abl5hg$pdq$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello,
>
> In many pieces of software you can save your preferences
> via something like Options -> Save Options or Preferences
> -> Save Preferences.
>
> However, I am afraid I should confess that I was not able
> to find easily a simple way to save Mathematica preferences
> (printing, showing the time, startup text/background colors
> etc etc) and compellet to tune it again and again which is
> not optimal solution...
>
> 1) How could I do it (any way)?
> 2) Can I do it by clicking the mouse button
> a couple of times (oh, it would be A PICTURE)?
>
> Many thanks in advance, the Expert! ;-)
>
>
> Your dog-tired with retuning,
>
> Vladimir Bondarenko
>
>
>