Formating ::usage strings
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- Subject: [mg93796] Formating ::usage strings
- From: dr DanW <dmaxwarren at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:12:12 -0500 (EST)
Does anybody know how to format usage strings from within Workbench? I would like to create usage strings with italicized and subscripted arguments similar to the built-in usage strings (try ?Plot for an example). I know that in theory I can painstakingly create all the Box [] structures to do this, but there must be a simpler way. I seem to recall seeing at a conference a Wolfram developer make a couple of simple keystrokes to do this, but I was too overwhelmed by the coolness to write down what he did. After playing with it a bit, it looks like (in Mathematica) I can type the argument, select it, go to Format>Style>Other, and give it the style TI. Subscripting can be done in the usual Control_ way. After formating the string in Mathematica, I can copy/paste the result into Workbench. So it looks like I have a way to get around it, but I swear there is a shortcut to all this. Does anybody know what I am talking about? Daniel