RE: Re: Weird self-fixing problem with cell styles
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- Subject: [mg95463] RE: [mg95417] Re: Weird self-fixing problem with cell styles
- From: "Tugrul Temel" <temelt at xs4all.nl>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:58:25 -0500 (EST)
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Dear All, I am also having the same problems. It is irritating to see that the styles and fonts are constantly changed every time I run a code. To whom I should report? Temel -----Original Message----- From: David Reiss [mailto:dbreiss at gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:30 AM To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg95463] [mg95417] Re: Weird self-fixing problem with cell styles What happened was that something presumably changed the style sheet of the notebook to another one. One possibility is that it was changed somehow to the internal style sheet used by the Documentation Center which has its styles set so that they do not appear in the Format>Style menu. It is certainly possible that this--or something like it--happened due to a bug. Of course if you can find the steps that caused this to happen, yoiu shodl report it to Wolfram support so that they can investigate it... --David On Jan 17, 5:39 am, Christopher Henrich <chenr... at monmouth.com> wrote: > I was working on a Mathematica notebook when I suddenly found that I > could not use the different cell styles. (Section, Subsection, Tex, > Input, etc.) Several thins seemed broken: > > 1. On the toolbar, there is a popup menu for selecting a style; it was > empty - no choices. > > 2. The menu item Format > Style offered only one choice : "Other..." > > 3. The menu item Format > Screen Environment was disabled (grayed out). > > I blundered around trying to find an option that referred to cell > styles. In desperation I changed the Style Sheet, and changed it right > back again. > > And that fixed all the symptoms. > > I felt that I had been acting out an AI Koan, from that fine old (!!) > book _The New Hacker's Dictionary_, p. 404: > > "A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning th= e > power off and on. > > "Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly. 'You > cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of > what is going wrong.' > > "Knight turned the machine off and on. > > "The machine worked." > > I have an Apple Power PC running Mac OS X version 10.5.5; and > Mathematica 8.0.1.0. My notebook and stylesheet were originally writte= n > with an older version, but I think they have been kept up to date as > needed. > > So what happened? And am I Knight, or am I the novice? > > -- > Christopher J. Henrich > chenr... at monmouth.comhttp://www.mathinteract.com