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Notice of New Presentations Update

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  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:49:15 -0500 (EST)
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A new Nov 2012 release of Presentations has been posted at my web site. All
registered purchasers may receive a free update and have been sent notices.
Sometimes people change their email addresses and have not updated with me
so if you are a past purchaser and have not received a notice please contact
me.

 

It's been over two years since I've posted an update notice on MathGroup
(although there was a new release in May 2011) so I thought I would review
the new additions.

 

Presentations is a Mathematica Application that facilitates writing custom
graphics, custom tables and custom dynamic presentations. It is oriented to
not only doing mathematics but communicating technical information in
literate notebooks and Applications. It is 35 MB long with 506 files, 18
subpackages, style sheets and palettes. There are essays on writing
notebooks, presentations, packages and applications with many examples and
extended examples. The package cost $50.

 

The present update has the following added features:

 

1) The Presentations palettes and style sheets have each been consolidated
in a Presentations folder so they will make only one main entry on the
Palettes and Style Sheets menus. This means that existing notebooks that use
one of the Presentations Style Sheets will have to be reset to the new style
sheet location.

 

2) The PresentationsPalette has been improved, mainly with the addition of
extra tooltips. The palette provides paste templates for all the
Presentations routines along with links to their Function pages and Guide
pages. In addition a ProgrammingPalette and FunctionsPalette giving similar
access to many (but certainly not all) Mathematica routines have been
provided.

 

New Routines:

 

3) VernierSlider gives arbitrarily high precision Slider input. DMSSlider
allows degree, minute, second entry. MultiSlider and MultiManipulator allow
a single Slider to be used for multiple variables, eliminating Slider
clutter. 

 

4) Parallel processing routines and an extended example are provided for
parallel processing graphics. 

 

5) ComplexRegionDraw, ComplexRegionFunction, ComplexPlotRange and
ComplexParallelPartitionDomain have been added to the ComplexGraphics suite,
which allow graphics to be done directly in terms of complex variables. 

 

6) DrawPeriodLattice and DrawRectangularLattice draw 2D lattices, either
over a number of periods or within a fixed rectangular region.

 

7) ContinuedFractionForm, FromContinuedFractionForm and
TruncateContinuedFractionForm provide formatting of continued fractions in a
manner analogous to the formatting of real numbers. Negative numbers have
all quotients beyond the first positive, unlike regular Mathematica that
makes all quotients negative.

 

8) DrawErrorBar and BoxWhiskerDraw have been added to the DrawingPaper
Section.

 

9) An EvaluateBelowButton has been added to the Derivations Section.
Including this button in a Text cell allows one to hide extensive code in a
following thin closed Input cell but alert readers to its presence and
evaluate the cell for them.

 

10) The Presentations style sheets have extra cell types that allow one to
reset various levels of section grouping. This allows you, for example, to
insert a Subsection within a Section and then smoothly return to the Section
grouping level to continue with Text or Input/Output cells.

 

11) The PresentationsToolbar style sheet supplies a toolbar at the top of
the notebook with common actions. The Save button on the toolbar will not
only Save the notebook to its regular folder, but also backup the notebook
to a backup folder if such a folder location is provided.

 

12) The Writing Applications essay has been substantially rewritten with
basic information on creating Applications with Workbench, code used in
creating palettes in the Presentations style, and the mechanics of Style
Sheets.

 

In addition, the previous release had:

 

1) A rewrite of Text3D (and a Text2D) to accommodate changes made by WRI.
Text3D provides true 3D text that rotates and hides behind surfaces. There
is also a provision for block characters.

 

2) New routines for drawing basic electrical network elements.

 

3) A HiddenNotebookData command to create cells that contain extensive data
(or routines) embedded in a notebook without immediate display.

 

4) A WindowPresentation routine for generating displays in a temporary
separate window. If a presentation is accompanied by lengthy textual
discussion that requires scrolling, it is better to have it outside and next
to the notebook. 

 

5) The PresentationsPalette was added. It contains an organized overview of
all the routines in Presentations, paste templates for all the commands and
their variations, and direct links to all the Function and Guide pages. It
is the same size as the Mathematica Assistant palettes. The design works
well if there are only a few hundred commands in an Application.

 

David Park

djmpark at comcast.net 

http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/index.html 





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