Re: Front-End Options and Word Wrapping
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- Subject: [mg117711] Re: Front-End Options and Word Wrapping
- From: Yves Klett <yves.klett at googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:11:44 -0500 (EST)
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Not sure if this will help you, but John Fultz posted some code to turn on linewrapping for the package stylesheet some time ago which works nicely. Orignal thread: https://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_thread/thread/b1b8c992cda38b50/195cba4f7e15b8c3?lnk=gst&q=Viewing+packages+#195cba4f7e15b8c3 or: http://tinyurl.com/6k5bwuk Regards, Yves Am 29.03.2011 13:58, schrieb JCW: > Front-end options in Mathematica STILL appear to be a morass, in spite > of P.J. Hinton's post of 7/25/01. I have been unable to find an index > that explains what individual options (out of hundreds!) actually do. > > For example, I have recently been importing a lot of old notebooks > originally written in vs. 2.2 (via the automatic converter in vs. 4.1, > since I couldn't get vs. 7.0 to do it directly). All cells end up as > single lines that run off the edge of the window on screen. Even > after I solve that problem (apparently only on a selected-cell level) > by checking "Format/Word Wrapping/Wrap at WIndow Width," many cells > still run off the side of the printed page. I still haven't found a > way to fix the latter. > > Is there a global option to set the 'word wrap' for the screen to > "WindowWidth" and for printout to "PageWidth?" Is there a way to > modify (or even to see) the specifications of the "Printout" and > "Working" defaults? I seem to remember that there was a global (or a > least a default) way to to this in older versions of Mathematica, but > I cannot find a way in vs. 7. -- JCW > >