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RE: Re: Mathematica 3.0.1 / Win95 woes

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• Subject: [mg12203] RE: [mg12158] Re: Mathematica 3.0.1 / Win95 woes
• From: "Barthelet, Luc" <lucb@ea.com>
• Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 03:08:52 -0400

My flame: under win95, Mathematica 3.0.1

The editing bug that I now find the most annoying is the confused cell
when editing quotes.
On large input cells that have been edited many times, when one add an
extra string, 50% of the time the front end gets confused and mixes the
opening and closing of strings. Getting out of that is a nightmare. I
found that I can make it happen with just a few lines of text:

test[]:=Module[
		{},

		firstString = "tete";
		middle= "toto";
			lastString ="";		
		];

type the module above in a new document WITHOUT the line that includes
middle.
Then insert the line by TYPING middle = toto"; (NOTICE THAT THE OPENING
QUOTE IS MISSING).
Then use the left arrow and move to the beginning of toto and add the 
missing opening quote.

Then execute the cell.
I get this everytime:

Syntax::"bktmcp": 
    "Expression \"\!\(Module[\(\({}\), \(\(firstString = \"tete\"\) ; \
\(middle = \"toto\"\) ; \(lastString = \\\" \\\";\\n\\t\\t];\)\)\)\)\"
has no \
closing \"\!\(\"]\"\)\".\!\(\"\"\)"

to fix this you have to delete "toto" and retype "toto". then it works.

If it were limited to the cases were I type a string in reverse order, I
could probably just learn to get better at it. but on large input
cells, there is no way to predict what will make it fail.

end of flame. I love mathematica anyway.

Luc, who wishes for a more professional editor in the front end,
including coloring and formatting.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Selwyn Hollis [SMTP:shollis@peachnet.campus.mci.net]
To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
> Sent:	Sunday, April 26, 1998 10:47 PM
> To:	mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
> Subject:	[mg12158] Re: Mathematica 3.0.1 / Win95 woes
> 
> So it seems that Mathematica 3.0 front-end bugs are not special to any
> one platform.
> 
> I've just completed a 270-page calculus manual, created entirely with
> the Macintosh version of Mathematica 3.0. If anyone reading this is
> considering similar insanity, I would advise you to think again.
> Otherwise be prepare to spend days upon days in page-break hell.
> 
> Let's all hope that WRI does the right thing and provides us all with
> a
> free 3.1 upgrade/bug-fix.
> 
> These well-known bugs alone in the Mac version warrant a free upgrade:
> 
> + evaluation delay when AppleTalk is on + page breaks are wrong unless
> cell brackets are off
>     (Try tweaking page breaks with cell brackets off. Big FUN!) + bad
> bounding box when saving graphics as EPS
> 
> Cheers, and viva Mathematica and Macintosh!!
> 
> 
> L. Dwynn Lafleur wrote:
> 
> > I seem to have much difficulty making Mathematica 3.0.1 behave
> correctly
> > with the Windows 95 front end.  There are several of little
> annoyances,
> > like the cursor disappearing on (random?) occasions.  Some standard
> > Win95 keystrokes don't work, such as Shift-DownArrow, which should
> > select (highlight) text down to the next line.  Interestingly,
> > Mathematica has incorporated SOME of the Windows standard Shift-XXX
> > selection mechanisms, e.g., Shift-End successfully selects to the
> end
> > of the current line.
> >
> > But the big problem is importing graphics for use as illustrations
> in
> > Mathematica notebooks, e.g., in text cells.  Under the topic
> > "Import/Export Features (Windows)", the Mathematica 3.0.1 help files
> > state the following :
> >
> > "Graphics which are formatted as bitmaps, metafiles, or Encapsulated
> > PostScript can be opened by Mathematica via the Open item in the
> File
> > menu. You may also have a graphic inserted at a particular location
> by
> > copying and pasting the graphic from another application."
> >
> > I haven't performed a documented series of controlled experiments
> yet,
> > but attempts to import BMP, WMF, and EPS graphic files have almost
> > always failed.  I don't think I have ever been able to import an EPS
> > file, and have only occasional and partial success with the other
> two
> > formats.  The usual problem is that the graphic image does not
> appear
> > in the notebook or, if it does, it prints out incorrectly, with the
> > left portion of the printed figure chopped off regardless of the
> > location of the graphic in the notebook cell.
> 
> 
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Selwyn Hollis
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> Armstrong Atlantic State University
> Savannah, GA 31419 USA
> <http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis/>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 

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