Re: Compatibility issue in Mathematica 7
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- Subject: [mg97725] Re: Compatibility issue in Mathematica 7
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:14:54 -0500 (EST)
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To the best of my knowledge, you can save your version 6 or 7 notebook and open it in versions down to at least 5. Given that it is plain ASCII earlier versions should be able to open it. The Notebook[ ] function appeared in version 3, so I guess that presentable results will be possible as old as that. Whether or not you can use it is another thing. Obviously, as the version number increases so does the functionality and you can't use the added functionalities in older versions. Other compatibility issues involve existing functions that have changed in options (like the PlotJoined to Joined change in ListPlot) or behavior (like the output of graphics shown as a direct result of command execution instead of being a side effect and consting of Mathematica primitives instead of postscript). There were a few of this type going from 5 to 6, but I haven't seen many going from 6 to 7. Some functionality from packages has been moved to the kernel. Cheers -- Sjoerd On Mar 18, 11:57 am, daniele <danielelin... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > I've been using Mathematica 6 for a while and now I'm about to > purchase version 7: I was wondering whether it's possible, in the > latest version, to save a notebook which can be subsequently opened > (and edited) with version 6. To the best of my knowledge, this was not > possible in version 6 (saving for, say, version 5) and it's something > that has always buggered me quite a lot, because I often have the > necessity to exchange notebooks with people who haven't the same > version as me. > > Thank you very much, > Daniele