Re: Re: Technical Publishing Made Easy with New Wolfram Publicon Software
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- Subject: [mg50685] Re: [mg50655] Re: Technical Publishing Made Easy with New Wolfram Publicon Software
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:15:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Rick is exactly on the mark. The same system is also used to ensure that the notebooks are always launched in the installed version of Mathematica (or Publicon or Calculation Center or whatever the case may be) with the highest version number, and that appropriate fallback strategies are used if the product that created the notebook isn't installed. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:54:25 -0400 (EDT), StupendousMan wrote: > 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) >>> 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 >>> Amherst, MA 01003-9305 -John