Re: Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
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- Subject: [mg38100] Re: [mg38066] Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 04:31:46 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Are you really sure of this? The reason why I am asking is because not only another user has confirmed the problem but the Wolfram technical support has now acknowledged this as a "well known bug". The only possibility I can see is that your version of 4.2 is actually newer than mine. Could you check this? Mine is 4.2.0.0. Also: In[1]:= $Version Out[1]= 4.2 for Mac OS X (June 4, 2002) Best regards Andrzej On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 10:52 AM, Y.A.Tesiram wrote: > Hi Andrej, > No the problem does not occur with my installation of Version 4.2 on > MacOS 10.2. The cell structure is copied and all is exactly the same.I > have however on occasion lost my mouse pointer when Mathematica is open > and the display goes to sleep and then wakes again. It doesn't happen > with > any other program. I suspect its a combination of both MacOS 10.2 and > Mathematica because things such as mouse pointer probelms also occur on > some installations of Linux. > > Rehards > Yas > > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > >> As a follow up on this issue: >> I reinstalled Mathematica 4.1 for Mac OS X and found that I still have >> this problem. On the other hand Allan Hayes informed me that he did >> not >> have it on Mathematica 4.2 under Windows 98. I then tried it myself, >> with Mathematica 4.1 under Windows 98, and indeed I found I can copy >> and paste groups of cells and the cell structure is preserved. They do >> not get merged into a single cell with all the Mathematica markup >> visible as they do in my case under Mac OS X 10.2. I would like to >> know >> if other Mac OS X users have the same problem. If not, it may be >> caused >> by something weird in my installation, although it seems unlikely as I >> am not experiencing any other problems. I have not yet tried reporting >> this to Technical Support yet since I am not sure if other Mac OS X >> users are also experiencing the same behaviour, but if it is a bug >> it's >> an awful one. >> >> >> Andrzej >> >> On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:21 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: >> >>> I am having an extremely frustrating time with one "feature" of >>> Mathematica 4.2 which I swear was not present in earlier versions. It >>> find is quite dreadful and yet none seems to have complained about it >>> so far so that I feel that perhaps I missing something obvious. >>> Anyway, this is the problem. I have two notebooks with a large number >>> of cells each. I want to copy some cells from one notebook to the >>> other. I am sure in earlier versions it used to be possible to select >>> several contiguous cells by shift clicking and then paste them into >>> another notebook. You would then get several cells of the same type >>> as >>> you copied. However now (at least on Mac OS X) this seems impossible. >>> What happens is that if you select a several cells or a cell group >>> and >>> past into another notebook you get a messy expression contained in a >>> single cell from which it does not appear possible to easily recover >>> the original cells. I have tired using various Copy As but have not >>> found anything that works. The only thing that works is copying and >>> pasting individual cells, which is of course very time consuming. >>> Is this also what happens on other platforms? I am sure it was not >>> the >>> case in earlier versions, and if so was this an intentional change? >>> It >>> so it seems to me as bad an idea as I have come across in many years. >>> Can anyone explain? >>> >>> Andrzej Kozlowski >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > Andrzej Kozlowski Yokohama, Japan http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/ http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/