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Re: more documentation finder palettes

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• Subject: [mg76170] Re: [mg76120] more documentation finder palettes
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 05:58:42 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
• References: <845718.1179133087873.JavaMail.root@m35> <200705150856.EAA17018@smc.vnet.net> <200705160941.FAA00385@smc.vnet.net>
• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

The first one works, but both the second and third are failing with 
Transpose::nmttx error messages about the first two levels of a 
one-dimensional list cannot be transposed.

Selwyn Hollis wrote:
> (* This is a vastly improved version of the previous palette for  
> opening tutorial overviews: *)
> 
> columns = 3;
> SetDirectory[$InstallationDirectory <>
>     "/Documentation/English/System/Tutorials"];
> overviewNames =
>    StringReplace[#, {".nb" -> ""}] & /@ FileNames["*Overview.nb"];
> SetDirectory[$HomeDirectory]; docpaths =
>   FileNames[
>    "*Overview.nb", {$InstallationDirectory <>
>      "/Documentation/English/System/Tutorials"}, Infinity];
> CellPrint@Cell[BoxData[GridBox[
>      Partition[PadRight[#, columns*Ceiling[Length[#]/columns], " "],
>         columns] &[
>       ((ButtonBox[((l = StringLength[#];
>                If[l < 25, #, StringTake[#, 23] <> "..."]) &)@
>             StringReplace[
>              First[#], {"Overview" -> "", "And" -> "&",
>               StartOfString ~~ "The" -> "", "Administration" -> "Admin",
>               "TwoDimensional" -> "2D", "Operations" -> "Ops"} ],
>            ButtonFunction :> (NotebookOpen[Last[#]]),
>            Evaluator -> Automatic] &) /@
>         Transpose[{overviewNames, docpaths}])]]],
>    ButtonBoxOptions -> {BaseStyle -> {FontSize -> 9, FontFamily ->  
> "Arial",
>        Bold}, FrameMargins -> {{2, 2}, {0, 0}},
>      Background -> RGBColor[1, 0.96, 0.87]},
>    GridBoxOptions -> {RowSpacings -> 0, ColumnSpacings -> 0}]
> 
> (* This one opens package guides:  *)
> 
> columns = 3;
> SetDirectory[$InstallationDirectory <> "/Documentation/English/ 
> Packages"];
> pkgnames = FileNames[];
> SetDirectory[$HomeDirectory]; docpaths =
>   FileNames[
>    "*", {$InstallationDirectory <>
>      "/Documentation/English/Packages/*/Documentation/English/Guides"},
>    Infinity];
> CellPrint@Cell[BoxData[GridBox[
>      Partition[PadRight[#, columns*Ceiling[Length[#]/columns], " "],
>         columns] &[
>       ((ButtonBox[((l = StringLength[#];
>                If[l < 25, #, StringTake[#, 23] <> "..."]) &)@First[#],
>            ButtonFunction :> (NotebookOpen[Last[#]]),
>            Evaluator -> Automatic] &) /@
>         Transpose[{Flatten[pkgnames /. "Compatibility" -> {}],
>           Flatten[
>            If[Not@StringMatchQ[#, {"*Package.nb"}], {}, #] & /@
>             docpaths]}])]]],
>    ButtonBoxOptions -> {BaseStyle -> {FontSize -> 9, FontFamily ->  
> "Arial",
>        Bold}, FrameMargins -> {{2, 2}, {0, 0}},
>      Background -> RGBColor[1, 0.96, 0.87]},
>    GridBoxOptions -> {RowSpacings -> 0, ColumnSpacings -> 0}]
> 
> 
> (* This one opens the compatibility guides: *)
> 
> columns = 1;
> SetDirectory[$InstallationDirectory <>
>     "/Documentation/English/Packages/Compatibility/Documentation/ 
> English/\
> Guides"];
> pkgnames = FileNames[];
> SetDirectory[$HomeDirectory]; docpaths =
>   FileNames[
>    "*", {$InstallationDirectory <>
>      "/Documentation/English/Packages/Compatibility/Documentation/ 
> English/\
> Guides/*"}, Infinity];
> CellPrint@Cell[BoxData[GridBox[
>      Partition[PadRight[#, columns*Ceiling[Length[#]/columns], " "],
>         columns] &[
>       ((ButtonBox[((l = StringLength[#];
>                If[l < 25, #, StringTake[#, 23] <> "..."]) &)@First[#],
>            ButtonFunction :> (NotebookOpen[Last[#]]),
>            Evaluator -> Automatic] &) /@ Transpose[{pkgnames,  
> docpaths}])]]],
>    ButtonBoxOptions -> {BaseStyle -> {FontSize -> 10, FontFamily ->  
> "Arial",
>        Bold}, FrameMargins -> {{10, 10}, {0, 0}},
>      Background -> RGBColor[1, 0.96, 0.87]},
>    GridBoxOptions -> {RowSpacings -> 0, ColumnSpacings -> 0}]
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
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University of Massachusetts                413 545-2859 (W)
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• References:
  • Re: Compatibility woes
    • From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob@bigfoot.com>
  • more documentation finder palettes
    • From: Selwyn Hollis <sh2.7183@earthlink.net>