Re: Re: Re: Flow around sections and subsections!
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- Subject: [mg93917] Re: [mg93884] Re: [mg93800] Re: Flow around sections and subsections!
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:10:20 -0500 (EST)
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For the curious, Item still works for backward compatibility. But the fact that Item is, as of version 6, a first-class kernel function with quite different properties causes some very real conflicts for certain kinds of programming exercises, which is why we made the change. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:35:42 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg wrote: > The file in question, in the directory you cite, is: MenuSetup.tr > > The relevant function for menu items in Mathematica 7 seems to have > changed to MenuItem from version 6's Item. > > Szabolcs Horv=E1t wrote: >> Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>> That reminds me of how much I miss the menu item >>> >>> Format > Background Color > Cell Gray Box >>> >>> that was present through Mathematica 5.2 but disappeared in 6. >>> >> >> Dear Murray, >> >> The front end token corresponding to that command is ToggleGrayBox. >> This (though undocumented) still works in version 6. It is possible to >> >> invoke it programmatically, or add it to the menu by inserting the line >> >> >> Item["Cell Gray Box", "ToggleGrayBox"], >> >> at the appropriate place in the file >> >> $InstallationDirectory\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\Windows >> >> I hope this helps, >> Szabolcs >> > > -- > 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