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Re: Editing named style sheet?

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• Subject: [mg103056] Re: Editing named style sheet?
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 05:38:33 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Stanford University
• References: <200909030940.FAA20880@smc.vnet.net> <h7pl1f$ged$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <h7pl1f$ged$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Larry Adelston <larrya at wolfram.com> wrote:

   [Thanks for helpful response; a few questions]

> You can access the stylesheet 

      [meaning, my custom "myDefault.nb" stylesheet] 

> through the FrontEnd by doing the following:
> 
> 1. Open a new notebook by choosing File > New > Notebook or Cmd-N  
> (Mac); Ctrl-N (Win). BTW, you don't have to use a blank notebook. You  
> can use an existing notebook, if you would rather. But be forewarned,  
> you will be applying the stylesheet, myDefault, to it. So if the  
> notebook contains an embedded stylesheet you run the risk losing it.

   So, could the existing notebook that I might open
   and edit actually be my **already existing** 
   "myDefault.nb" notebook/stylesheet**?

   More broadly, can the stylesheet for any custom 
   stylesheet/notebook that one creates actually 
   **be that same stylesheet**?

   Still more broadly, would it make sense for the stylesheet
   for **any** custom-created stylesheet/notebook to be,
   **by default** that same stylesheet?  If the stylesheet
   for a stylesheet/notebook were always *that same*  
   stylesheet, one could always edit it in one step-- ??

   [A small observation here:  After I've created the "myDefault.nb" 
   stylesheet/notebook and installed it in my Library, it shows up in 
   the File >> Open Recent menu of my Mathematica app for a 
   while, and I could actually freeze it there so it would never age
   out.  But, if I select this entry in the Open Recent menu, it *doesn't
   actually open* (at least, this is what I seem to see).

   On the other hand, on a Mac at least, this "myDefault.nb"
   stylesheet/notebook also shows up for a while as an entry 
   in the Apple Menu >> Recent Items menu at the left end
   of the Mac menu bar -- and if I select this entry from there, 
   it *does* open, in the format that one sees when one chooses
   the Format >> Edit Stylesheet command.   So, could I start 
   your Step 3-b from there?]

> 2. Apply myDefault stylesheet to the new notebook by choosing Format >  
> Stylesheet > myDefault.
> 
> 3. Open the stylesheet. Note, this is a two-step process.
> a. Choose Format > Edit Stylesheet.... This opens a stylesheet  
> notebook that inherits from myDefault, but is not myDefault itself. To  
> open myDefault perform step b.
> b. In the open stylesheet notebook there is a link to myDefault.nb, in  
> blue. Click the link and myDefault opens.
> 
> 4. You can now make changes to myDefault that will be made permanent  
> after you save it.
> 
> Yours,
> Larry

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  • Editing named style sheet?
    • From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>