Attaching a notebook to a message
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- Subject: [mg129339] Attaching a notebook to a message
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 02:20:45 -0500 (EST)
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I suddenly realised that there is (probably) a way to attach a notebook to a message here! The trick is to compress the expression which is the notebook: Compress[NotebookGet[nb]] For example: "1:eJzVUslOwzAQdSlQtgouHLggIwS0YhGtqooTEruQgEoNggPikBQHLBw7xI5aOHHmyF8\ hxI/wFXicUNKUpYgTl5c3M2/\ Gs2TGEXV3ACEkhzQcCUUcIa7dDHj6NRxQqT6sLcKY2wdWPrb2AhH627ayI3c7JZtMsSY1s\ TybMSxtz2cE8/ghaxQioSNDR1HFyEeVesiIHI8LbF3Z/JIcU49IAgpoCL4I4YXy4+\ sGQlMF+P6506hATsOmaBmxcQxCQ6KpfW5/MtkCckQ0AdlZl3ige42JaN+\ 30e6HrJvgq4eyHWKIzhpcNFg2eG5w3uCSwVaCV2INtLzP/VD99hT3T9PmFPcPc+\ YUvew1F08FI/w8UjTG4r9LjXcN0lqoelttJl4tQi9mnUZd8wlvk1SREU1OKb8QTYveEf5+\ lmcNDd1ZSp1vqw/t4JJymfoZOyw5rMlGqIRnK9qgY5lkORDQdbA6VJ+\ MuBsIrnb4xQkJJBXcqmjf2soqdkWAD2kjEFK4CkddSVyoVpYdqoq4UGso4ZAAV5dwebVUK\ qZKT8BJ1C0j28SlnCpdWlqwDW3bIVMr3HkDs7QGzA==" Since Compress only uses printable ASCII characters, hopefully if you paste the above string into a notebook and perform: string//Uncompress//NotebookPut Of course, it is also possible to paste the raw output from NotebookGet, but that will be considerably more voluminous. Also a compressed string that becomes corrupted will be utterly destroyed, so it is probably safer than using the raw BoxForm expression. NB: The 9.0 bug that messes up cell merges, also affects NotebookGet, so I would suggest you use 8.0.4 for this trick until 9.1 comes out. This is really a test to discover if this survives the posting process! David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk