Questions tagged [front-end]
Questions related to the Mathematica front-end (graphical user interface).
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How to change Mathematica 14 preferences by modifying application file(s), rather than by using the graphical user interface (GUI)?
I'm running Mathematica 14 on Windows 11. Is there a way to modify Mathematica's preferences by modifying one or more application files, rather than using Mathematica's graphical user interface (GUI) ...
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How to see fraction line clearly in Windows Mathematica 14.0.0?
I just downloaded Mathematica 14.0.0 trial version on Windows 11. But the "horizontal fraction line" is hardly visible in the output on my screen. An example is shown below.
I couldn't find ...
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How to typeset a key combination in Mathematica notebook?
I'm writing a tech note in Mathematica, and would like to include some key combination shortcuts. For example, Ctrl+/ for entering fractions. How do I typeset key combinations so that they look like ...
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Button styling when using SelectionPlaceHolder
I am trying to create a button to export a user-selected image. According to the documentation for button, "Button[label, None, BaseStyle->stylename] inherits button functionality from the ...
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Slow front end in notebook whilst another is runing on a different kernel
I wish to work on a project whilst another is working in the background.
As such I utilise two different notebooks each running on a different kernel, let's call them kernel-1 and kernel-2.
However, ...
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Programmatically bring notebook to front, open minimized notebooks? (particularly to Messages)
I want to do the equivalent of navigating to the Window menu and selecting a notebook. In particular, I'm interested in forcing the messages window to the front. My ...
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Adding common words or public dictionaries to Mathematica's spell check?
Is there an update to this:Stack Exchange 242114?
(That post is a couple years old and has a response from the WRI tech support that the following is impossible and they requested this as a feature)
I ...
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Defining an output format that doesn't break Ctrl+Shift+I
I'm used to pressing Ctrl+Shift+I (or N if I want a shorter form) to reformat my input cells in a nicer way after editing them, e.g., to remove unnecessary parentheses, add or remove spaces as needed, ...
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How to detect (and follow) OS dark mode with wolfram language?
I intend to use the DarkMode resource function to switch to and from dark mode
in accordance with the appearance of Windows overall.
This detection can be achieved ...
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How to clear NotebookEventActions or unbind keyboard event
I tried to write a function to "Evaluate in Place", as I've shown in: How to get the output of evaluating in place and append the output to the place.
But now I have encountered a new ...
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Weirdly big spacing around ε character
For some reason my ϵ (\[Epsilon]) character has a lot of empty space above and below it. It's best described by a screenshot ...
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Is this list of Formal Symbols complete? Which versions have unprotected Formal Symbols?
Formal Symbols are protected against being assigned values, making them handy for avoiding name collisions for things like fit parameters and pattern matching. Because formal symbols (and others) like ...
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Can one force Print[] statements within a Dynamic[] to appear in the Notebook? If so, should one ever do that?
For a simple demostration of the behavior, note that the print statements in this expression appear in the Messages window: ...
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CreateDialog and GraphicsArray
I think I have hit on a true bug in the Mathematica Front End:
If I define
plotFunc[] := Print[GraphicsGrid[{{Plot[x^2, {x, 0, 1}], Plot[x^3, {x, 0, 1}]}}]];
I can ...
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Mathematica 11.3.0, .nb file running for too long on Windows 10
I am doing simple calculation in Mathematica 11.3.0 on Windows 10. Here is my code:
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