Format menu problem
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- Subject: [mg63854] Format menu problem
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:02:55 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Stanford University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
OK, here's what happened (I think -- seeking enlightenment as usual): I did some editing on the Default.nb style sheet using the Edit Style Sheet menu command, and then, when I Saved the changes and Closed the Default.nb notebook, I accidentally left one of the modification cells for the style Subsection open in "Show Expression" mode rather than cancelling the Show Expression for it. The net result, when I went back to my working notebook, was that the Subsubsection style, which is normally cmd-6 in the Format >> Style menu, had completely disappeared from that menu, so that Text was now cmd-6, Small Text was cmd-7, Input was cmd-8, and so on (the Subsection style, cmd 5, was still there -- it was the following one that had disappeared). And, in other notebooks, those lower-down key commands functioned with their new values. This persisted even after Quitting Mathematica and reopening it. I then went back, re-edited the Default style sheet, discovered my error, and reversed Show Expression on the Subsection cell; that's all I did; and everything seems back to normal. But it doesn't seem it should have worked this way (if in fact I'm correctly interpreting how it did happen). Doesn't a cell evaluate normally even when displayed in Show Expression mode? Might it be more sensible for cells to auto drop out of Show Expression mode when the notebook is closed?