Re: Need good reference for writing Stylesheets
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- Subject: [mg68854] Re: Need good reference for writing Stylesheets
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:28:06 -0400 (EDT)
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David Park wrote: > > The one tricky thing is if you want to add new cell types. You should add > these later in the style sheet, in what might not seem the logical order, so > that they won't change the standard order of the 'hot keys'. Mathematica > automatically adds hot keys (Alt-1, Alt-2, etc.) in the order it encounters > the cells. It is very bad form to change these because if a user is used to > using them he doesn't want to switch to an entirely new set with a new style > sheet. Perhaps, but I had to put one of my own styles (GraderText) near the top of the custom stylesheet that I embed into assignments for my students, because I couldn't see any other way to give it a hot-key. My students download these notebooks from the web, do the exercises, and send them to me via e-mail. I grade them on my computer, then e-mail them back; it's all completely paperless. It would be extremely tedious to grade the assignments without a hot-key for GraderText. I gave it Alt-8, which would be SmallText -- a style I rarely if ever use -- in the default stylesheet. Hopefully nobody will arrest me for this :-) -- Helen Read University of Vermont