Re: automatically include automatic numbering in a
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- Subject: [mg111578] Re: automatically include automatic numbering in a
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:56:19 -0400 (EDT)
At this point I'm not asking for anything that fancy. My primary request is a way to create a cell style that automatically inserts the automatic numbering option. And a secondary request is to include automatically some boiler-plate within the cell when it is created. This is not to deny the utility of a hook into a database of examples or exercises, or whatever. On 8/4/2010 5:50 AM, David Park wrote: > What is really needed is a method, perhaps in Workbench, for users to design > their own paclet data structures. Then you could build a data file of > exercises, a data file of citations you might use, and other personally > useful data files. > > Then you could, for example, draw randomly from an exercise file, number > them, format them differently if you wish and maybe do some processing such > as selecting random values and computing the answers on the side. > > > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ > > > From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu] > > I have a cell style, Exercise, in a style sheet that's just a variant of > Text style. Its definition includes option CounterIncrements->"Exercise". > > That style sheet is applied to a notebook where I'm going to use that > style. Three questions: > > (1) Is there some way of automatically having the number appear at the > beginning of any such cell when I create it -- without using menu item > Insert> Automatic Numbering. > > (2) Is there some way of automatically having such a cell begin with the > text "Exercise"? > > (3) Is there some way of automatically having such a cell begin with > "Exercise n. " where n is an actual automatic numbering counter value? > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305