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RE: comments

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  • Subject: [mg40613] RE: [mg40587] comments
  • From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:02:01 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

C.B.,

Are you asking how to put comments in a Mathematica Notebook? Easy - use
Text cells.

The easiest way to enter a Text cell is to press Alt 7 and then start
typing. You could also use Menu\Format\Style\Text. You can also use
Menu\Format\Show ToolBar. Then the drop down box on the ToolBar can be used
to select a cell type for entry. Place the cursor for a new cell, select
Text and start typing.

The best way to make a reader friendly notebook is to use Section grouping,
with an intermixture of Text cells, Input/Output cells and Graphics cells.
It is also best to use the default Automatic grouping for cell grouping.

If you are asking about putting comments in Input code you can use
(* comments *). The trouble with this is that you will lose the comments if
you do a form conversion on the Input cell - say to InputForm (to post to
MathGroup say) or back to StandardForm. I think this is a bad feature of
Mathematica. It would be nice if (* *) comments were preserved.

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/

From: C B [mailto:klimm1290 at yahoo.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net

how do i put comments     in *.nb file.





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