RE: Mathmatica StyleSheet questions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg69212] RE: Mathmatica StyleSheet questions
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:41:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Benoît, The way to modify a style sheet is to start with a DefaultStyle notebook, bring up the style sheet with Menu->Format->Edit Style Sheet. Then save the style sheet in your FrontEnd/StyleSheets folder under a new name. Then modify the style sheet directly. What I usually do is to find the cell or style type and display the underlying cell expression by using Shift-Ctrl-E (or use the menu item.) Then I add or modify options at the end, say by adding FontSize->14 in the Text cell to increase the font size. Then I use Shift-Ctrl-E again to get back to the regular display. You can also make some changes to the cell style by selecting the cell bracket and using the Format menu, but I prefer to work with the underlying expression. After I've made all the changes I save the style sheet notebook. If you have stored it in the right place it should appear in your Menu->Format->StyleSheets listing. I never use the OptionInspector to change a style sheet and didn't even know you could do it. I have never used DisplayFormula and haven't figured out what it is good for! Nor do I know what good the Outline cell types are good for. Nor have I ever figured out how the 2ColumnBox in 'Styles from HelpBrowser' is used. You can use InlineCells within Text cells for word processing type equations. Start a text cell and use Ctrl-( to open an InlineCell. Then type your mathematical expression and use Ctrl-) to exit the InlineCell. I always try as much as possible to have all the mathematics 'active' and use as little 'word processing mode' as possible. It is very worthwhile to lean in that direction. Others might give you additional information. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Benoît Carmichael [mailto:benoit.carmichael at ecn.ulaval.ca] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Mr. Park, I sent earlier this week a few questions on StyleSheets to the MathGroup. For a reason that I do not understand my mail was not pass on to the list. Given that you often comment on these types of questions, I take the liberty to write you directly, hoping that you can spare a few moments on my problem. Here is the text of my mail: "Up to now, I have been using mathematica mostly to do computations without concerned on output visual aspects. Lately, I have try to use mathematica as a document editing tool, mostly to prepare class notes and slide shows for my students. I am not a «StyleSheet Guru» and I am having difficulties to comprehend the «big picture» of StyleSheets. Are there good references (ideally free) on the subject? Of more immediate concerned, how do we set the same font type for all cells of a Notebook? Is it enough to modify the Style Environment Names of the Notebook StyleSheet with the Options inspector? Or do we have to go cell type by cell type of the StyleSheet file? DisplayFormula cells give me particular difficulties. Eventhough I have set font type for DisplayFormula with the Options inspector in my stylesheet, Mathematica keep insisting in using Courier New. I have looked through my StyleSheet and could not locate the reference on Courier New font. Where can I force Mathematica to use my preferred type font for DisplayFormula? Are there hidden options? Also, how can we override with global settings all cells of a Notebook that have been set locally? Many thanks in advance." How to override local setting would be particularly useful? Ounce again, many thanks for your time. -- Benoît Carmichael Professeur titulaire Département d'économique Pavillon J.-A. de Sève Université Laval Québec (P.Q) G1K 7P4 Tél.: (418) 656-2131 #5442 Avis relatif à la confidentialité: =================== Ce message contient des renseignements qui peuvent être confidentiels ou protégés. Il s'adresse au destinataire prévu ou à une personne autorisée à le recevoir en son nom. Si vous l'avez reçu par erreur, nous vous prions d'en informer l'auteur dans les meilleurs délais, de ne pas divulguer son contenu et de le supprimer de votre système. ===================
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