Re: Modifying Default Stylesheet?
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- Subject: [mg103417] Re: Modifying Default Stylesheet?
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:49:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Stanford University
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In article <h94vkf$ngt$1 at smc.vnet.net>, "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net> wrote: > 1) Open a notebook with the Default style sheet. > > 2) Use Menu -> Format -> Edit Style Sheet... and edit it. > > 3) Save the new style sheet under a NEW name using SaveAs (and if you modify > it in the future you still have to use SaveAs and not just Save.) Save it in > your private ($UserBaseDirectory) > Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets folder. > > 4) It should now appear in your Menu -> Format -> StyleSheet menu listing. David, thanks -- but still lots of questions: 1) There's an "Install" button in the Stylesheet editing window, and also a File >> Install >> Stylesheet command in the front end File menu (on my Mac V7 anyway). b Both of these look like they do the same thing, namely, auto-install the (maybe edited) style associated with some selected notebook as a new, named stylesheet (SS). You don't mention either of these. What are they all about? 2) Suppose I follow your steps 1) and 2) above (which I generally know how to do). Can I then save the edited result as a temporary notebook (somewhere, under some name), and then install it as a _replacement_ for my existing Default SS? -- meaning that once I've done this, NO new name will appear in the Menu -> Format -> StyleSheet menu listing; and all my previous AND new working notebooks will now open with this new, modified Default style? (This is what I'd really like to do.) 3) Suppose I follow your directions 1) thru 4) above literally and save my first modified SS with the name, say, MyDefault1, so that this new name now appears in the Menu -> Format -> StyleSheet menu listing; and I also make this my default SS per your steps 5) thru 8) below Then, after I use this as my default SS for a while, I decide I want to make some further mods to MyDefault1. So, do I now I have to start with MyDeFault1; follow steps 1) thru 8); and thereby create a new default SS named MyDeFault2 SS? (which I'll have to apply retroactively to all my earlier notebooks, the first time I re-open them.)_ You see where this is going . . . Thanks again. ================================== > To make this your default new notebook style sheet: > > 5) Use the Options Inspector, Shift-Ctrl-O. > 6) Set "Show option values" to "Global Preferences". > 7) Go to Global Options -> File Locations. > 8) Click the far right box on DefaultStyleDefinitions. Browse to your new > style sheet and open it. > > You can reset to the Default style sheet for new notebooks by clicking the > green X on the left. > > And you can switch a particular notebook back to the Default style sheet by > using Menu -> Format -> StyleSheet. > > > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ > > > From: AES [mailto:siegman at stanford.edu] > > I'd like to modify the default stylesheet that will be used for all my > routine Mathematica work, and that will become the default or initial > stylesheet for all new notebooks that I create. > > (This is in version 7 for Mac, and the modifications will be generally > minor changes in text formats and appearance. I'll probably want to > make additional mods to some of these from time to time.) > > My basic question is, can I do this by editing the "Default" stylesheet > that is at the top of the list that appears when you select the Format > >> Stylesheet menu command? (I'd prefer to do this, for simplicity.) > > Or should I do it by creating and installing a new "MyStylesheet" that > will show up added to the bottom of that list? > > More specifically: > > 1) If I modify the Default stylesheet, will those changes "stick" > through future upgrades, at least in the v7.0, v7.1, v7.2 ... hierarchy? > > And will changes in Default cascade down through all the Article, Book, > etc stylesheets that appear below Default in that list? Or do all of > those, including Default, inherit separately from some level that's > above Default? > > And if I make or add mods to Default, what is the Install process that I > need then go through each time? > > 2) If I instead create and install a new "MyStylesheet", how do I make > it be the default stylesheet for all newly created notebooks?