Re: Re: Modifying Default Stylesheet?
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- Subject: [mg103575] Re: [mg103403] Re: [mg103388] Modifying Default Stylesheet?
- From: Adam Griffith <adamg at wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:36:05 -0400 (EDT)
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I found the discussion in: http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5_2/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/index.en.html very useful when creating my own personal stylesheets. -Adam David Park 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. > > 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? > > >
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- Re: Modifying Default Stylesheet?
- From: "David Park" <djmpark@comcast.net>
- Re: Modifying Default Stylesheet?