Re: listplot and notebook directory
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- Subject: [mg15443] Re: listplot and notebook directory
- From: "Nicolas B.E. Sawyer" <nbes at eee.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 04:21:46 -0500
- Organization: University of Nottingham
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Please tell me more about this. When I try (V3.0 on a PC)
NotebookInformation[SelectedNotebook[]]
all I get is
Out[6]=
{MemoryModificationTime -> 1615015}
The whole line gives nothing at all.
Allan Hayes wrote:
>
> >2. NOTEBOOK DIRECTORY
>
> The following might help
>
> DirectoryName[ToFileName["FileName"/.NotebookInformation[SelectedNotebook[]]
> ]]
>
> "C:\\WINDOWS\\Desktop\\"
>
> Allan
>
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> Maarten.vanderBurgt at icos.be wrote in message <779bkt$b7o at smc.vnet.net>...
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have two unrelated questions:
> >
> >1. LISTPLOT
> >
> >When I execute the following command the result is a listplot where the
> >data points ares fairly big filled black circles.
> > In[1]:= ListPlot[{0,2,4,9,16,25},PlotStyle->PointSize[0.05]]
> >
> >The following gives a plot where the data points are joined by a line.
> > In[2]:= ListPlot[{0,2,4,9,16,25},PlotJoined -> True]
> >
> >With the following I would expect the combination of the two. It does
> >however give the same results as In[2]: the
> >"PlotStyle->PointSize[0.05]" options doesn't seem to have any effect
> >here. Is this intended behaviour or is this a bug?
> > In[3]:= ListPlot[{0,2,4,9,16,25},PlotJoined -> True,
> >PlotStyle->PointSize[0.05]]
> >
> >Is there a way you can have both options "PlotJoined -> True" and
> >"PlotStyle->PointSize[0.05]"?
> >
> >
> >2. NOTEBOOK DIRECTORY
> >
> >Is there a command which gives the directory where the current notebook
> >resides?
> >
> >You get the notebook directory -- which can be some network directory
> >different from the local directory where Mathematica is located -- with
> >$InitialDirectory when you start Mathematica by double clicking on the
> >notebook file in Explorer (Windows). However, when Mathematica is
> >launched from the programs menu and you open the same notebook from the
> >File menu, $InitialDirectory gives the Mathematica directory. Is there
> >a command which also in the latter case gives the path to the notebook?
> >I did not find anything in the book. This would be very usefull when
> >you want to read in data from an ascii file which sits in the same
> >directory as the notebook file. It would make moving the whole
> >directory much easier: you would not have to retype a fairly long
> >network directory path.
> >
> >
> >Thanks for any help
> >
> >Maarten van der Burgt
> >
> >Icos Vision Systems
> >Leuven
> >Belgium
> >
> >
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