RE: Bookmarks in Mathematica ????
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- Subject: [mg71577] RE: [mg71547] Bookmarks in Mathematica ????
- From: "Philipp" <philipp.m.o at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:41:50 -0500 (EST)
Thanks for the link Chris. I think it would be useful for many newbies. Cheers, Philipp. -----Original Message----- From: chris.chiasson at gmail.com [mailto:chris.chiasson at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chiasson Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:17 PM To: Philipp Cc: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg71577] Re: [mg71547] Bookmarks in Mathematica ???? The documentation site is well crawled - you can pull up an old version at archive.org. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://documents.wolfram.com On 11/23/06, Philipp <philipp.m.o at gmail.com> wrote: > Chris, > > Regarding Mathematica + packages on-line documentation. > Apparently a good idea, until Wolfram changes the web site structure (as > they did at least 2 times in the past (info from this newsgroup search). > > I can also create the bookmarks and store them in a special workbook as I am > doing it now. For example, > > Cell[TextData[{ > StyleBox[ButtonBox["EvaluationNotebook", > ButtonData:>{"EvaluationNotebook"}, > ButtonStyle->"RefGuideLink"]], > "[] Path & FileName of the current notebook ", > StyleBox[ButtonBox["Mathematica 2.11.3", > ButtonData:>{"2.11.3", "3.1"}, > ButtonStyle->"MainBookLink"]] > }], "Text"] > > However, this is extremely time consuming & "I am trying to automate this > process". > > Cheers, > Philipp. > > -----Original Message----- > From: chris.chiasson at gmail.com [mailto:chris.chiasson at gmail.com] On Behalf > Of Chris Chiasson > Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:59 AM > To: Philipp > Cc: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: Re: [mg71547] Bookmarks in Mathematica ???? > > If you really want to bookmark something, you could always bookmark > the same help page in your web browser. The documentation is online, > after all. > > > > On 11/22/06, Philipp <Philipp.M.O at gmail.com> wrote: > > I have searched far and wide (http://library.wolfram.com/ and this news > > group) and I couldn't believe that nobody has thought about it before. > > > > I am a relatively new user (<6 months) and I get progressively more and > > more frustrated trying to find things again. Say, a few weeks ago, I > > read some useful stuff in the Help Browser that might have been > > pertinent to a problem I am presently working on. Trying to remember > > the item or the context directly or through associations is time > > consuming and often fruitless. > > > > >From my present knowledge of Mathematica FrontEnd programming, it > > should be relatively simple to create a Bookmarks palette that > > implements, you've guess it, bookmarks. > > > > The Bookmarks palette should allow bookmarking all notebooks (including > > the Help Browser). Setting a bookmark should be registered in the > > palette as a "link object" and presented to the user as a button (name > > should be derived or "inherited" with the user being able to change > > it). > > > > By the way, it would be nice to have Help Browser (or maybe overall) > > History capability as well. > > > > Am I wrong thinking it would be a relatively easy task? Can anybody > > point me in the right direction? > > > > Cheers, > > Ph > > > > > > > -- > http://chris.chiasson.name/ > > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/