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Re: Editing named style sheet?

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• Subject: [mg103005] Re: [mg102965] Editing named style sheet?
• From: Larry Adelston <larrya at wolfram.com>
• Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 19:55:29 -0400 (EDT)
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You can access the stylesheet through the FrontEnd by doing the  
following:
1. Open a new notebook by choosing File > New > Notebook or Cmd-N  
(Mac); Ctrl-N (Win). BTW, you don't have to use a blank notebook. You  
can use an existing notebook, if you would rather. But be forewarned,  
you will be applying the stylesheet, myDefault, to it. So if the  
notebook contains an embedded stylesheet you run the risk losing it.

2. Apply myDefault stylesheet to the new notebook by choosing Format >  
Stylesheet > myDefault.

3. Open the stylesheet. Note, this is a two-step process.
a. Choose Format > Edit Stylesheet.... This opens a stylesheet  
notebook that inherits from myDefault, but is not myDefault itself. To  
open myDefault perform step b.
b. In the open stylesheet notebook there is a link to myDefault.nb, in  
blue. Click the link and myDefault opens.

4. You can now make changes to myDefault that will be made permanent  
after you save it.

Yours,
Larry

On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:40 AM, AES wrote:

> I have a customized style sheet named myDefault.nb located in
>
>   usr/Library/Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/
>                                            StyleSheets/myDefault.nb
>
> which mostly modifies the fonts of a few styles in Default.nb.
> The myDefault format shows up at the bottom of the StyleSheet
> menu (above StyleSheet Chooser) and seems to work OK.
>
> What sequence of steps do I follow (on a Mac, Mathematica v7) to
> add some additional definitions/font changes in this
> myDefault style sheet? (and have 'em "stick")

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  • Editing named style sheet?
    • From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>