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Re: printing all notebooks

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  • Subject: [mg45765] Re: [mg45756] printing all notebooks
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:36:17 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <200401230815.DAA27728@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 23 Jan 2004, at 08:15, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> Using Mathematica under Windows, the function printDirectoryNotebooks
> defined below prints all the Mathematica notebooks in a user-specified
> directory.  For example:
>
>    printDirectoryNotebooks["e:\\Temp"]
>
> But it does not work using Mac OS-X.  Can you indicate how it should be
> changed so it will be platform-independent?
>
>    printNotebook[nbname_] :=
>      Module[{nb = NotebookOpen[nbname]},
>        NotebookPrint[nb]; NotebookClose[nb]; nbname]
>
>    printDirectoryNotebooks[dirName_?StringQ] :=
>      Module[{dir = SetDirectory[dirName]},
>        printNotebook[dir <> "/" <> #] & /@ FileNames["*.nb"]]
>
> In particular -- and I believe this is part of the problem -- how from
> within Mathematica can one determine the path-separator character
> directly (without, say, querying $System and then accordingly select 
> the
> path-separator character)?
>
> -- 
> Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
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>
>
Modify your function as follows:


  printDirectoryNotebooks[dirName_?StringQ] :=
      Module[{dir = SetDirectory[dirName]},printNotebook[ToFileName[dir, 
#]] & /@ FileNames["*.nb"]]


Works for me under mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).


Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/


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