v.6 Editing Stylesheets
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- Subject: [mg76187] v.6 Editing Stylesheets
- From: Helen Read <read at math.uvm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 06:07:28 -0400 (EDT)
So I'm trying to make a custom stylesheet in 6.0. I started off the same way I normally do, by going to Format, Edit Stylesheet. Now, the 6.0 documentation claims that a dialog should offer a choice of Edit New Private Stylesheet Edit Private Copy of Shared Stylesheet Edit Shared Stylesheet This didn't happen though. Instead, up came a window PrivateStyleDefinitions for the current notebook. Here one is faced with a dropdown menu Choose a Style to Modify, which unfortunately, includes only a subset of the styles. I can edit the styles listed in the dropdown menu, and can add new styles, but cannot find a way to edit other existing styles not listed in the menu. In particular, I would like to modify the style (just the color, really) for UnmatchedBracket, which seems to be inherited from the core.nb stylesheet. Since it's not on the Choose a Style to Modify menu, I tried adding a style for it, but it doesn't work. UnmatchedBrackets in the notebook I'm working in continue to be that purply color defined in core.nb, which (to my eyes) doesn't stand out enough. I had nice, bright red UnmatchedBracket in a custom stylesheet created in 5.2, but now when I open up those files in 6.0, the UnmatchedBracket style no longer works at all (it's not even getting the purply color; unmatched brackets are not distinguished in any way). -- Helen Read University of Vermont