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Re: Re: Modifying Default Stylesheet?

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• Subject: [mg103575] Re: [mg103403] Re: [mg103388] Modifying Default Stylesheet?
• From: Adam Griffith <adamg at wolfram.com>
• Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:36:05 -0400 (EDT)
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I found the discussion in:

http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5_2/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/index.en.html

very useful when creating my own personal stylesheets.

-Adam

David Park wrote:
> 1) Open a notebook with the Default style sheet.
>
> 2) Use Menu -> Format -> Edit Style Sheet... and edit it.
>
> 3) Save the new style sheet under a NEW name using SaveAs (and if you modify
> it in the future you still have to use SaveAs and not just Save.) Save it in
> your private ($UserBaseDirectory)
> Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets folder.
>
> 4) It should now appear in your Menu -> Format ->  StyleSheet menu listing.
>
> To make this your default new notebook style sheet:
>
> 5) Use the Options Inspector, Shift-Ctrl-O.
> 6) Set "Show option values" to "Global Preferences".
> 7) Go to Global Options -> File Locations.
> 8) Click the far right box on DefaultStyleDefinitions. Browse to your new
> style sheet and open it.
>
> You can reset to the Default style sheet for new notebooks by clicking the
> green X on the left.
>
> And you can switch a particular notebook back to the Default style sheet by
> using Menu -> Format -> StyleSheet.
>
>
> David Park
> djmpark at comcast.net
> http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/  
>
>
> From: AES [mailto:siegman at stanford.edu] 
>
> I'd like to modify the default stylesheet that will be used for all my 
> routine Mathematica work, and that will become the default or initial 
> stylesheet for all new notebooks that I create.
>
> (This is in version 7 for Mac, and the modifications will be generally 
> minor changes in text formats and appearance.  I'll probably want to 
> make additional mods to some of these from time to time.)
>
> My basic question is, can I do this by editing the "Default" stylesheet 
> that is at the top of the list that appears when you select the Format 
>   
>>> Stylesheet menu command?  (I'd prefer to do this, for simplicity.) 
>>>       
>
> Or should I do it by creating and installing a new "MyStylesheet" that 
> will show up added to the bottom of that list?
>
> More specifically:
>
> 1)  If I modify the Default stylesheet, will those changes "stick" 
> through future upgrades, at least in the v7.0, v7.1, v7.2 ...  hierarchy?
>
> And will changes in Default cascade down through all the Article, Book, 
> etc stylesheets that appear below Default in that list?  Or do all of 
> those, including Default, inherit separately from some level that's  
> above Default?
>
> And if I make or add mods to Default, what is the Install process that I 
> need then go through each time?
>
> 2)  If I instead create and install a new "MyStylesheet", how do I make 
> it be the default stylesheet for all newly created notebooks?
>
>
>   

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  • Re: Modifying Default Stylesheet?
    • From: "David Park" <djmpark@comcast.net>