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Re: Mathematica 8 and Alpha integration....

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• Subject: [mg114091] Re: Mathematica 8 and Alpha integration....
• From: Syd Geraghty <sydgeraghty at me.com>
• Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:59:59 -0500 (EST)

In reply to my own post:

I was helped out by Scott Kruger of WRI Tech Support. He got me to do a clean reinstall of Mathematica 8 and that corrected the free form input problems I had.

I am methodically running through some of the great new functions in 8. I will be reporting bugs to WRI and giving MathGroup a heads up to some of the more surprising bugs as I find them and hopefully find fixes.

I can crash my system spectacularly requiring a power down and reboot almost at will running Texture[] examples from the documentation even after the reinstall.


Cheers & thanks very much to Scott ....  Syd

Syd Geraghty B.Sc, M.Sc.

sydgeraghty at mac.com

Mathematica 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (November 6, 2010)
MacOS X V 10.6.5 Snow Leopard 
MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo  2GB RAM

On Nov 22, 2010, at 4:34 AM, Syd Geraghty wrote:

> John,
> 
> What are the Mac OSX 6.5 keyboard secrets to unlock Inline Free-form input to the Mathematica 8 Kernel and Wolfram|Alpha?
> 
> I can use the Mathematica 8 "Insert>Inline Free-form" Menu Item to get the kernel to respond properly but the kernel only responds to CTRL+= and not = from the keyboard for the same function..
> 
> There is no response at all to == on a new line from Wolfram|Alpha nor CTRL+== and it cannot be accessed through the Mathematica 8 Insert Menu. (I hope that could be changed)!
> 
> I can run the access to W|A programmatically OK from examples in the documentation.
> 
> I guess it is an installation bug. I have been waiting for two days for a response from Technical Support, I guess they are inundated with upgrade enquiries. :-)
> 
> 
> Cheers .... Syd
> 
> Syd Geraghty B.Sc, M.Sc.
> 
> sydgeraghty at mac.com
> 
> Mathematica 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (November 6, 2010)
> MacOS X V 10.6.5 Snow Leopard 
> MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo  2GB RAM
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 20, 2010, at 3:14 AM, John Fultz wrote:
> 
>> Understanding some of the internal divisions of the feature implementation
>> would, I think, be instructive.  The == feature, in the big picture, is capable
>> of doing any of the following things, depending upon your input...
> 
>