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Re: Need portable code to open Notation palette.

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  • Subject: [mg59380] Re: Need portable code to open Notation palette.
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 03:47:17 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 8/6/05 at 1:29 AM, ted.ersek at tqci.net wrote:

>With help from Prof. Eisenberg I came up with the definition below
>which works for myself using Mathematica 4.1 and for him using
>Mathematica 5.2.

>NotationPalette[]:=
> If[$VersionNumber<5,
>    NotebookOpen[FrontEnd`FileName[
>        {$TopDirectory,"AddOns","ExtraPackages","Utilities"},
>      "NotationPalette.nb"] ];,
>    (* else *)
>    NotebookOpen[FrontEnd`FileName[
>        {$TopDirectory,"AddOns","ExtraPackages","Utilities",
>           "Palettes","English"},"NotationPalette.nb"] ];
>   ]
>

>But I worry that this won't work for all users. I want to support
>all versions of Mathematica from 3.0 to 5.2 and beyond. I also want
>it to work under MS-Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac. How do I know
>the code above will not work for some users?

FWIW, the code above seems to work fine for me using Mathematica 5.2 on Mac OS 10.4.2
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