Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
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- Subject: [mg38066] Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:09:34 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
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 > >