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Re: Technical Publishing Made Easy with New Wolfram Publicon Software

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  • Subject: [mg50655] Re: Technical Publishing Made Easy with New Wolfram Publicon Software
  • From: StupendousMan <Stup at ndou.man.doesnt.want.email.thank.you>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:54:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Well, since the same company authored the two programs, it's easy enough 
  to have the program examine the notebook and decide whether to handle 
it or pass it off to the other.  All this can be done quite quickly and 
long before the user sees anything.

Rick



Steve Luttrell wrote:
> I wondered about that as well. I don't know how it is done in Windows.
> 
> Steve Luttrell
> 
> "Murray Eisenberg" <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote in message
> news:cghfq0$je1$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> 
>>I confirmed that.  But on a Windows machine, how do Publicon and
>>Mathematica possibly accomplish that trick?  I thought the extension
>>alone (.nb) determined what program opened a file whose type is
>>registered in Windows.
>>
>>Steve Luttrell wrote:
>>
>>
>>>... it seems that a notebook created using Publicon knows
>>>that it originated there, so that double-clicking on it (in Windows)
> 
> fires
> 
>>>up Publicon rather than Mathematica (and vice versa for a notebook
> 
> created
> 
>>>in Mathematica).
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
>>Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
>>Lederle Graduate Research Tower      phone 413 549-1020 (H)
>>University of Massachusetts                413 545-2859 (W)
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>>Amherst, MA 01003-9305
>>
> 
> 
> 


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