Re: docs on bracket shapes
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- Subject: [mg18140] Re: docs on bracket shapes
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:51:43 -0400
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi Murray, what is with Pauls excelent tutorial at http://www.mathsource.com/Content/General/Tutorials/Programming/0209-810 ? It is just updated to version 4. I expect that the most of the users never mind about the funny blue lines on the right margin of the notebooks. Regards Jens Murray Eisenberg wrote: > > Mathematica ver. 2.x in print documented the various shaped cell > brackets -- the ornaments indicating active/inactive, initialization, > sound, etc. Mathematica 3.x did not, and a number of users called > attention to that omission. > > Unless I am mistaken, the new ver. 4.0, once again, fails to document > the kinds of brackets. If I am correct, why is this simple matter still > not attended to? > > (This is not a matter of idle curiosity. My students have repeatedly > asked about this over the several years I have been teaching with ver. > 3.0 and 3.0.1.) > > -- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H) > Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > Amherst, MA 01003-4515