Re: Style sheets in 6.0
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- Subject: [mg76354] Re: Style sheets in 6.0
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 02:31:00 -0400 (EDT)
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David Park wrote: > Mathematica 6.0, from what I've seen so far, was done with a lot of style. > The folks at WRI deserve great credit, not only for the major features such > as dynamic interaction and graphics but also in many of the smaller changes. > > An example is the great functionality of Grid over the old GridBox. > > But one exception is style sheets. There is minimal documentation and what > there is appears to be incorrect. > > I could find no way to modify an old 5.2 style sheet so the new syntax > coloring feature worked. > Adding ShowAutoStyles->True and ShowSyntaxStyles->True to Input cells did > not work. > > Nor can I understand how to create a new style sheet from scratch, or as a > modification of the Default.nb style. > When I brought up the Default.nb notebook and saved it under a new name, I > could not edit the styles. > > Also, when I started with a new notebook in the Default style and tried to > edit the style sheet I was not given the choice of bringing up the shared > style sheet, editing it, and saving it under a new name. There was no choice > menu. It appears that all I could do was import a private style sheet to the > notebook. Not only that, I can find no way to access styles in the imported private stylesheet other than the ones offered on the "Choose a style to edit" dropdown. I can edit those, and can add new styles, but can't get to the full set of styles. > Since the style sheet procedure is quite changed from 5.2, and creating > style sheets is quite important to many users, WRI should give us more help > here. I agree. -- Helen Read University of Vermont