Re: Technical Publishing Made Easy with New Wolfram Publicon Software
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- Subject: [mg50655] Re: Technical Publishing Made Easy with New Wolfram Publicon Software
- From: StupendousMan <Stup at ndou.man.doesnt.want.email.thank.you>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:54:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Well, since the same company authored the two programs, it's easy enough to have the program examine the notebook and decide whether to handle it or pass it off to the other. All this can be done quite quickly and long before the user sees anything. Rick Steve Luttrell wrote: > I wondered about that as well. I don't know how it is done in Windows. > > Steve Luttrell > > "Murray Eisenberg" <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote in message > news:cghfq0$je1$1 at smc.vnet.net... > >>I confirmed that. But on a Windows machine, how do Publicon and >>Mathematica possibly accomplish that trick? I thought the extension >>alone (.nb) determined what program opened a file whose type is >>registered in Windows. >> >>Steve Luttrell wrote: >> >> >>>... it seems that a notebook created using Publicon knows >>>that it originated there, so that double-clicking on it (in Windows) > > fires > >>>up Publicon rather than Mathematica (and vice versa for a notebook > > created > >>>in Mathematica). >> >> >>-- >>Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu >>Mathematics & Statistics Dept. >>Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) >>University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) >>710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 >>Amherst, MA 01003-9305 >> > > >