Re: Re: Re: Re: 6.0 not seeing style
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- Subject: [mg76428] Re: [mg76390] Re: [mg76351] Re: [mg76262] Re: 6.0 not seeing style
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 02:46:05 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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So I tried to put the 15 legacy style sheets -- not including Default.nb or HelpBrowser.nb -- into a separate Legacy subdirectory of Mathematica6.0\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\StyleSheets. Even after restarting Mahematica with clean preferences, when I select menu item Format > Stylesheet, that subdirectory is not listed among the other subdirectories (Article, Book, ...) there. Curiously, in my $UserAddOnsDirectory\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\StyleSheets directory I created a Miscellaneous subdirectory and put some old style sheets there. This directory, Miscellaneous, DOES show up on the menu of style sheets. Where is that hard-wired in? John Fultz wrote: > That is correct. These stylesheets are no longer being maintained. If you feel > that the stylesheets that are present and prominently advertised in the menus > are inadequate, and especially if they are inadequate in a way that one of the > legacy stylesheets was adequate to your use, then I'd certainly encourage you to > email suggestions at wolfram.com. > > You could also email me and I can pass your suggestions along, but I was only > tangentially involved in this decision, and I'm not well prepared to respond > directly to such suggestions. > > In the meantime, you can also set a stylesheet by evaluating, e.g., > > SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],StyleDefinitions->"ArticleClassic.nb"] > > Concerning the larger issue of stylesheet editing and usage, I have quite a > number of things to say on the subject, and I'll be responding to some other > posts on the subject. It is, indeed, an under-documented area, but I'm glad to > see the interest, and you'll be seeing more both on MathGroup and in future > releases of the product on this. > > Sincerely, > > John Fultz > jfultz at wolfram.com > User Interface Group > Wolfram Research, Inc. > > On Sun, 20 May 2007 02:29:26 -0400 (EDT), Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> The original method you suggested -- deleting "MenuPosition->0" from the >> top of the style sheet file in a text editor -- works! >> >> But this certainly seems unreasonably difficult. Should I surmise that >> Wolfram does not want us to use any of those style sheets for new >> notebooks, and that they are just there for pre-5.2 legacy notebooks? >> >> Lev Bishop wrote: >>> On 5/18/07, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>>> But these are style sheets supplied by Wolfram Research as part of >>>> Mathematica 6.0!!! >>>> >>> Nevertheless, if you want them to show up in the Stylesheets menu you >>> have to change the MenuPosition option in those stylesheets. The >>> technique I gave you is a little flawed. A better way is to open the >>> stylesheet as a notebook in mathematica, open the options inspector >>> (shift-ctrl-o) go to "Selected Notebook" and "As text" and modify the >>> MenuPosition line to have something like "MenuPosition->1100" (I guess >>> you can change the order of the stylesheets by changing the number). >>> Then save the notebook. When you restart mathematica it should show up >>> in the menu. >>> >>> You would think that the File -> Install menu item would do this for >>> you, but as far as I can tell File -> Install for a stylesheet just >>> copies the stylesheet file into a directory for you, nothing more. >>> >>> Lev > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Re: Re: Re: 6.0 not seeing style sheets in $InstallationDirectory/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets
- From: John Fultz <jfultz@wolfram.com>
- Re: Re: Re: 6.0 not seeing style sheets in $InstallationDirectory/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets