Re: Version 6.0.2
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- Subject: [mg86117] Re: Version 6.0.2
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:56:45 -0500 (EST)
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David Park wrote: > My initial impression of Mathematica Version 6.0.2 is a disappointment. > > 1) There is still no easy access to the list of 'standard packages' that > come with Mathematica. It quite difficult to find them. The 'Virtual Book' > that was posted on this group did have a list of these packages but the WRI > Virtual Book does not have them. (An indirect way to get links to standard > packages is to search *Package in the Documentation Center. But this gives a > lot of other stuff also.) > > 2) The worse new feature is that the palettes that come with Mathematica > will no longer remember their position and condition. If they are not where > you like them then each time you start up Mathematica you will either have > to live with it or adjust them anew. With 6.0 and 6.0.1 I was able to change > the preferences for the ColorScheme palette so it would remember its > condition. I can no longer do this and none of the other palettes remember > thier state either. (One improved feature is that the SpecialCharacters > palette will now directly paste instead of select and then paste.) If you > like to control where the palettes are stay with 6.0.1, > > 3) I was hoping that the Format/StyleSheet menu would put a check by the > current style sheet in use for a notebook but this still has not been fixed. > > And aside from this we still don't have the ability to write Version 6 style > documentation. > There is a subtle change in the way .csv files are imported at 6.02. It created a temporary show stopper for one of my clients. Put the following into a .csv file: "hope" 1 2 At 6.01 (and earlier versions of Mathematica) the string was read in as "hope". At 6.02 the quotes are included in the string - "\"hope\"". I suspect this counts as a bug fix, since it is more consistent, but beware! David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk