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Re: Re: How was this typed?

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• Subject: [mg61904] Re: [mg61872] Re: How was this typed?
• From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 05:11:24 -0500 (EST)
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We know SW wrote the Mathematica Book. I am sure he could tell you how
he did it. I can picture him using his mad genius to create some kind
of hyper document editing interface. Either that, or he generates the
documentation with a one line Mathematica program. You know through
computational equivalence, 10000 monkeys and a typewriter = rule 110
and a good random seed. Perhaps this begins to explain the problems
with the documentation.

On 11/3/05, Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a fancy palette that add all the style boxes ??
>
> Regards
>   Jens
>
> "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:dk6v7u$fn0$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> | How did the author type this code? Would this
> have all been done in "Show
> | Expression" mode?  I'm beginning to wonder if
> people who do a lot of
> | authoring in Mathematica spend a good deal of
> their time looking at
> | notebooks in whatever-you-call-thisForm.  Would
> that be a correct
> | assumption?
> |
> | Cell[BoxData[
> |    FormBox[GridBox[{
> |          {Cell[TextData[{
> |              StyleBox["StyleForm[", "MR"],
> |              StyleBox["expr", "TI"],
> |              StyleBox[",", "MR"],
> |              " ",
> |              StyleBox["options", "TI"],
> |              StyleBox["]", "MR"],
> |              " "
> |            }]], Cell["print with the specified
> style options "]},
> |          {Cell[TextData[{
> |              StyleBox["StyleForm[", "MR"],
> |              StyleBox["expr", "TI"],
> |              StyleBox[",", "MR"],
> |              " ",
> |              StyleBox["\"", "MR"],
> |              StyleBox["style", "TI"],
> |              StyleBox["\"]", "MR"],
> |              " "
> |            }]], Cell["print with the specified
> cell style "]}
> |          },
> |        ColumnAlignments->{Right, Left}],
> TraditionalForm]],
> | "DefinitionBox",
> |  GridBoxOptions->{RowSpacings->0.4,
> |  RowLines->False},
> |  CellTags->"S2.9.9"]
> | --
> | "Philosophy is written in this grand book, The
> Universe. ... But the book
> | cannot be understood unless one first learns to
> comprehend the language...
> | in which it is written. It is written in the
> language of mathematics, ...;
> | without which wanders about in a dark
> labyrinth."   The Lion of Gaul
> |
>
>
>
>


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  • Re: How was this typed?
    • From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>