Re: Style Sheets in Version 6.0
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- Subject: [mg76805] Re: Style Sheets in Version 6.0
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 00:47:38 -0400 (EDT)
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David Park wrote: > With some help from John Fultz, I've learned quite a bit about creating new > style sheets in Version 6.0. > > I've written a tutorial notebook on this, which can be downloaded from my > web site below. It takes the reader step-by-step through the creation of a > new style sheet, performing most of the common operations. There may be > better ways and I may get some comment but it does work. > Thanks for that - it has helped a lot! I feel sure that the new style sheet mechanism will be more effective than its predecessor because it is based on a hierarchy, but it really should have been properly documented by WRI! The option inspector could help a lot. It would be really useful if it indicated exactly where in the hierarchy any given option is set. It would also help if there were a tool that could indicate the entire hierarchy of style sheets for a notebook and where each style is created and modified. I discovered that you do not need to make a style visible in order to edit it. Simply choose a style that is visible, un-format it, and change its name. Using that method, I was able to make alterations to the "Notebook" style. One other point - it would seem that it is a very BAD idea to carry over 5.2 style sheets because they provide complete definitions for all styles and so mask certain new features. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk