Re: What "style"s are available in a notebook?
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- Subject: [mg89568] Re: [mg89537] What "style"s are available in a notebook?
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:09:37 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:58:27 -0400 (EDT), David Park wrote: > We can use the Style[expr, "style"] expression where "style" is a > specified style in the current notebook. How could we find the complete > set of such "styles"s that are available? Specifically, I am thinking of > styles that may come from cascading style sheets and are not directly > visible in the current style sheet. > > For example, in the first example in tutorial/GridsRowsAndColumns the > style "TableHeader" is used. Is this a style that is in the Documentation > style sheets, or is it one that is available in Default style notebooks? > It appears that it is not generally available and Mathematica substitutes > something like the "Text" style. > > Mathematica obviously makes substitutions because if we put in a nonsense > style we get output with no warning message. > > Style["Some text.", "znmjdhr"] > > So basically I would like to know how to obtain a list of all valid > "style"s > available in a notebook environment. Actually, in that last case, it's *not* making substitutions. It merely is not complaining, and resolving the style as empty. In the case of TableHeader, however, such a style does exist. You must have just overlooked it. It's in Wolfram/Reference.nb, which is the stylesheet that is used by all documentation. There is no way to get a complete list of available styles, and if there were, you'd be overwhelmed with a lot of utility styles which have virtually no application with direct use. You can programmatically get a list of the styles which would show in the Styles menu. I know from your question that this isn't what you're looking for, but I'll mention it because I suspect you may find it interesting anyway. FE`Evaluate[FEPrivate`GetPopupList["MenuListStyles"]] The list is suitable for plugging in directly to a PopupMenu. Unfortunately, there is no distinction in the stylesheets between utility styles for which you'd generally have no use, and styles which have been hidden for other reasons. The Wolfram/Reference.nb hides styles from the style menu because Wolfram/Reference.nb is intended as a presentation only environment rather than an authoring environment. Even in the authoring environment we use in-house (and, I strongly suspect, the one that's in the beta of Wolfram Workbench, although I've not personally looked at this), you wouldn't see a style like TableHeaders in the style menu. In that case it's because the style is never applied via the style menu, but it's instead applied automatically through a set of table editing controls. Allowing authors to apply such a style inconsistently could cause some real problems, whereas having tables go through the table editing controls force a number of consistency checks which will result in a consistent visual style, fewer authoring problems, and proper processing for web-based documentation. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc.