Re: Conveniently Restarting Notebooks
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- Subject: [mg51189] Re: Conveniently Restarting Notebooks
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 05:26:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <ck0c16$nuv$1 at smc.vnet.net>, DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com> wrote: > >> What about Ctrl+{, Ctrl+} and Ctrl+'. That goes part way to what you want. > > No, it doesn't; not even close. > > I want to push a button that says "1" if I only want to see only top-level > outline cells, "2" if I want to see two levels, etc. That would allow me to > close all low-level groups with one click or instantly see an outline to > whatever detail I want. That's what Word's outline view has done for about > fifteen years. Does the following palette do what you want to do? Paste the following Cell into a Notebook and run Generate Palette from Selection: Cell[BoxData[GridBox[ { {ButtonBox[ "1", ButtonFunction:>FrontEndExecute[ { NotebookFind[SelectedNotebook[ ],"Section", All, CellStyle], FrontEndToken[ "OpenCloseGroup"] }]] }, {ButtonBox[ "2", ButtonFunction:>FrontEndExecute[ { NotebookFind[SelectedNotebook[ ],"Subsection", All, CellStyle], FrontEndToken[ "OpenCloseGroup"] }]] }, {ButtonBox[ "3", ButtonFunction:>FrontEndExecute[ { NotebookFind[SelectedNotebook[ ],"Subsubsection", All, CellStyle], FrontEndToken[ "OpenCloseGroup"] }]] } }, RowSpacings->0, ColumnSpacings->0 ]], NotebookDefault, NotebookAutoSave->False] > When I write anything complex in Word, I start in outline view and fill in > the details later. If I could, I'd write Notebooks the same way. > > I don't think input/output groups should collapse the same way as other > groups, and I think closed cells with visible output really should be handled > better. They shouldn't take up white space, yet it should be easier to see > that they are there, and what their purpose is. I'm not certain what that > would look like, but the way it looks now is not very useful. I'm not sure exactly what you want here. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 6488 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 6488 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul
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