Notebooks
- To keep the front end from overwriting an output cell during a reevaluation,
you can add the option GeneratedCell -> False to the output cell.
- To have convenient access to all of the hundreds of special mathematical symbols
available in Mathematica, you can use the CompleteCharacters and
BasicCalculations palettes. Between the two, every special symbol can
easily be included in a notebook. With the CompleteCharacters palette alone, you will
find over seven hundred Greek, extended Latin, script, and gothic letters--as well as
a variety of arrows, symbols, shapes, and icons. When passing your cursor over the
desired character, you will see its keyboard equivalent, which can always be used to
input a Mathematica symbol quickly without the use of the palettes.
- To prevent palettes from disappearing behind notebooks, you can use the notebook
option WindowFloating -> True.
- To generate a new notebook with a nondefault file name, you can use the function
NotebookSave[NotebookCreate[ ], "filename"].
- CellTags makes it easy to find and manipulate specific cells.
In[1]:=
nb = EvaluationNotebook[ ];
CellPrint[Cell["This is an example.",
"Text", CellTags -> {"test"}]];
Now you can use a simple NotebookLocate or NotebookFind
instead of a complicated SelectionMove.
In[2]:= NotebookLocate["test"];
In[3]:=
NotebookFind[nb, "test", All,
CellTags];
You can add, remove, show, or hide cell tags with items under the
Find menu.
- To create indices of your notebooks for online or printed use, you can use
Make Index..., which is located in the
Find menu. This enables you to index by page or section
and set up hyperlinks for online use.
- Check out the Palette Demos. Palettes provide a simple way to set
up a point-and-click interface with Mathematica operations. To see some
examples of what you can do with
palettes, choose Getting Started/Demos in the Help Browser
and go to Demos. Next, click any of the hyperlinks to see
examples of the Palette Demos.
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