Re: Re: Viewing packages in mathematica
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- Subject: [mg102867] Re: [mg102814] Re: Viewing packages in mathematica
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:35:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:44:30 -0400 (EDT), Vince wrote:
> On Aug 27, 6:38 am, John Fultz <jfu... at wolfram.com> wrote:
>
>> The window size issue is easy to fix. With any file open, choose File-
>> >Save
>> As... and switch the file filter to "Mathematica Package". Press the
>> Options...
>> button. In the resulting dialog, check the box to "Save window size and
>> position", then press the "Use Settings as Defaults" button.
>>
>> From now on, all packages that you save will remember their window size
>> and
>> position. You may wonder why we didn't do this by default. There was
>> some
>> discussion internally over whether saving the window size/position was
>> more
>> desirable, or whether it was more desirable to minimize the amount of
>> markup
>> which is added to package files by default. The latter position won
>> the day.
>> I'm not personally fully convinced by this, but compromise, like
>> sausage, is
>> never pretty when it's made.
>>
>> Concerning the line-wrapping issue, it is possible to change this, but
>> considerably more difficult. But here's a canned procedure for you.
>>
>> * Copy the notebook expression below. Paste into Mathematica, and
>> choose to
>> interpret.
>>
>> Notebook[{
>> Cell[StyleData[StyleDefinitions -> "Package.nb"]],
>> Cell[CellGroupData[{
>> Cell[StyleData["Code"], PageWidth->WindowWidth, LineBreakWithin-
>> >Automatic,
>> LineIndent->1., LinebreakAdjustments->{0.85, 2, 10, 0, 1}],
>> Cell[StyleData["Code", "Printout"], PageWidth->PaperWidth]
>>
>> }, Open ]]
>> },StyleDefinitions->"PrivateStylesheetFormatting.nb"]
>>
>> * Click the "install Stylesheet..." button at the top. In the
>> "InstallName"
>> field, type
>> =09Package.nb
>> pressing Enter, then click the Finish button.
>>
>> * Restart Mathematica.
>>
> John,
>
> A tangential question: Is there a way to make the Front End substitute
> spaces for tabs, when I press the Tab key? I'm looking to imitate the
> same behavior available in the Workbench editor (I prefer to format
> the whitespace of package files with spaces instead of tabs).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Vince Virgilio
No, but we can certainly consider that for the future feature list.
Sincerely,
John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.