RE: Re: Need good reference for writing Stylesheets
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg68892] RE: [mg68854] Re: Need good reference for writing Stylesheets
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:20:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear Helen, You didn't put the new cell type "near the top" of the style sheet but just far enough down so that it would catch a hot key and NOT disturb most of the standard hot keys. So you don't have to worry about the Mathematica Militia appearing on your doorstep! (Just kidding.) You could have gone one position lower and only bumped the hot key for InputCells since they don't really need a hot key. What caused me to include the comment in my posting is the MiER style sheet for submission of articles. It completely rearranges most of the hot keys, and specifically the hot key for Text cells had been changed. Since that is the hot key I use most often I found it quite annoying. And I am quite impressed with the work you are doing with Mathematica in education. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Helen Read [mailto:hpr at together.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net 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