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RE: Re: copying

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg45775] RE: [mg45751] Re: copying
• From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
• Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:36:27 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

That seems very complicated.

In a regular Mathematica notebook place the cursor in a cell you wish to
copy and change it to InputForm. (Use Shift-Ctrl-I, Shift-Ctrl-N to go back
to StandardForm and Shift-Ctrl-T to go to TraditionalForm.) Or you may wish
to copy the cell down first (Ctrl-L) and then change to InputForm. Then just
copy and paste into an email or posting.

I always think it is better to just copy the contents and not the entire
cell with the In or Out numbers. Then a series of cells can be easily copied
from the posting and pasted back into a Mathematica notebook.

About a month ago Bobby Treat posted code for a palette that allows you to
simply select and copy Mathematica code in InputForm. I find this quite
useful. I have attached a copy of the code below. Paste it into a notebook
and choose to interpret it so that it will create a new notebook with a
button. Then select it and generate a palette from the selection. Save it in
Configuration/FrontEnd/Palettes.

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

From: Harold Noffke [mailto:Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net

Jim:

There are two ways to post an example.

    The first way is to launch the Mathematica Kernel, which will
display a text window into which you can copy your Input lines, and
recreate your output lines in TextForm.

    The second way is to view your Notebook with a text editor, and
then copy all of that text into a posting.  This can be used by
downloaders to recreate your notebook.

Most simple examples are done the TextForm way.  For an example of the
Notebook route, see ...

From: Alex (akhmel at hotmail.com)
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg45775] [mg45751] For general discussion

Regards,
Harold

************************************************************************

Notebook[{
Cell[BoxData[
    ButtonBox[\(Copy\ As\n
      \ InputForm\),
      ButtonFunction:>Module[ {cpy, cpynb, evalnb},
          CompoundExpression[
            Set[ cpy,
              NotebookRead[
                InputNotebook[ ]]],
            If[
              SameQ[ cpy, {}],
              Return[ ]],
            Set[ cpynb,
              NotebookCreate[ Visible -> False]],
            NotebookWrite[ cpynb, cpy],
            SelectionMove[ cpynb, All, Notebook],
            FrontEndExecute[ {
              FrontEndToken[
              cpynb, "SelectionConvert", "InputForm"]}],
            Set[ evalnb,
              NotebookPut[
                Notebook[
                  Map[ Cell[ #, "Input"]&, {
                    BoxData[
                      RowBox[ {"cpynb", "=",
                        ToBoxes[ cpynb]}]],
                    "FrontEndExecute[{FrontEndToken[cpynb,            \
                \"CopySpecial\",\"PlainText\"]}]",
                    "NotebookClose[cpynb]",
                    "NotebookClose[EvaluationNotebook[]]"}], Visible ->
                  False]]],
            SelectionMove[ evalnb, All, Notebook],
            SelectionEvaluate[ evalnb], Null]],
      ButtonEvaluator->Automatic,
      Active->True]], NotebookDefault,
  CellMargins->{{Inherited, Inherited}, {7, Inherited}},
  PageBreakAbove->True,
  CellLabelMargins->{{12, Inherited}, {Inherited, Inherited}},
  InputAutoReplacements->{
    "->"->"\[Rule]", ":>"->"\[RuleDelayed]", "<="->"\[LessEqual]",
      ">="->"\[GreaterEqual]", "!="->"\[NotEqual]", "=="->"\[Equal]",
      Inherited},
  "TwoByteSyntaxCharacterAutoReplacement"->True,
  Hyphenation->True,
  LineSpacing->{1.25, 0},
  ScriptMinSize->9,
  CounterIncrements->"Text",
  StyleMenuListing->None,
  FontFamily->"Courier"]
},
FrontEndVersion->"5.0 for Microsoft Windows",
ScreenRectangle->{{0, 1280}, {0, 941}},
WindowSize->{492, 740},
WindowMargins->{{21, Automatic}, {Automatic, 27}}
]

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