Creating and Editing New Stylesheets

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Creating and editing new stylesheets

I'm try ing to create a stylesheet, but the process has become painful. I'm sure that this has to do something w ith resetting something in

Mathematica everytime I make changes to the sty lesheet. To explain my problem better I will describe the s teps I take to create a very simple

stylesheet w ith only one style defined.

In a new notebook enter the follow ing:

CreateDocument[{

Cell[StyleData[StyleDefinitions->"Core.nb"]], Cell[StyleData["Title"],

ConversionRules->{

"TeX"->{"\\title{",#&,"}"},

"HTML"->{"",#&,"\n"}

},

FontSize->26,

FontWeight->"Bold",

FontColor->RGBColor[0,0,0]

]

},

StyleDefinitions->"StylesheetFormatting.nb",

Editable->True,

Saveable->True

]

The new notebook that appears w ill contain two cells. It w ill have the style as all the stylesheets that you have seen and you w ill be able to

edit and save it.

Save this notebook in . I name this notebook . Once you have this enter this

command:

$UserBaseDirectory/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/ Style01.nb

MathLink`CallFrontEnd[FrontEnd`ResetMenusPacket[{Automatic,Automatic}]]

I found that command , this command resets the menu so that can list your stylesheet in the menu. At this point w e are

ready to use the stylesheet. Open a new notebook and create a cell. Save this notebook as in a directory of your choice.

Go to .

here Mathematica

Title TestNb.nb

Format > Stylesheet > Style01

Test 1:

The current view should be this:

Now w e select the cell in and w e show the express ion by going to . The next screenshot show s

he view w ith the modifications:

Title Style01.nb Cell > Show Expression


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Now w e change back the title cell to how it w as originally by doing again. In a mac w e can press

. Now w e see that the changes took effect.

Cell > Show Expression command + shift +

E

No problem there. We can repeat this procedure to keep adjusting the cell.Title

Test 2:

Now lets see if our convers ions rules w ork. Lets create a new notebook called in the same directory as . Put the

follow ing in it:

ExportNb.nb TestNb.nb

nb =NotebookOpen[NotebookDirectory[]"TestNb.nb"];

ExportString[nb,"HTML","FullDocument"->False]

This is what I obtained after evaluating those commands:

The conversion rules took ef fec t. But, I made a mistake (purposely made w hen I created the sty le sheet). The angle bracket should have been

on the top. In any case, let us correct this mistake:


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Af ter w e revert back, and save , w e try to see if the new convers ion rules w ill w ork.Style01.nb

Unfortunately, the changes in the do not take eff ect. I have found that if I quit the Kernel by going to

and then I run the commands again then it w orks:

ConversionRules Evaluation > Quit

Kernel > local

Conclusion and Questions:

It seems that if w e w ant to the w ay your notebook looks like you can create styles and you w ill see how the changes take effect after you

modify your sty lesheet as I described in Test1. But, if you are to export your notebook as an HTML file or Tex, then you better bew are of the

. I'm sure you w ill keep making many mistakes w hen you change the but you w ill not be able to see the

change of this unless you restart the kernel.

ConversionRules ConversionRules

Questions: Is there any w ay f or Mathematica to know that there has been changes in the conversion rules? Is there something that w e need

to restart other than the Kernel to see that this changes have been made? If restar ting the kernel is the only w ay, is there a command to

restart it? I'm getting tired of having turning it off and on all the time manually.

front-end kernel conversionasked May 26 '12 at 21:38

mlopez

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Have y ou tried ? If it does not help y ou could try to f ind aff ected sy mbols byClearSystemCache[]

monitoring the (or even and ) f or the all non-protected sy mbols in allByteCount OwnValues DownValues

context s using something like the code I provided .here Alexey Popkov May 28 '12 at 5:27

@AlexeyPopkov, I tried but that does not work. I guess at this point the best is toClearSystemCache[]

just evaluate the quit command and then ev aluate the code I s howed. I 'll look more into y our f unction later.

Seems useful. jmlopez May 28 '12 at 16:43


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1 Answer

Instead of going to Evaluation > Quit Kernel > local, you simply type Quit and the kernel stops, then

run the commands again in the new sess ion. That's it!

answered May 27 '12 at 13:42

magma

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I f igured that much but it just s eems like a little too much to restart ev ery thing when there's probably

something else that takes care of the sty le definitions. Anyway, +1 f or answering. jmlopez May 27 '12 at

14:58

I answered this way because, f rom y our question, it seemed like y ou were not aware of the Quit command.

Quitting and restart ing used to be a slow and painful process with the f irst v ersions of MMA, partly because

PCs were comparatively s low back then, but now it takes a f ew millisecs t o restart the whole thing and have

a clean slate, so why bother? magma May 28 '12 at 8:46

@magma may be here is not the right place to post a question. But I just wondered if there is a diff erence

between Quit[] and CloseKernels[]. RMMA Oct 17 '12 at 12:02

@Frink good question! I am not sure since I nev er really experimented with parallel computations, but m y

imression is that Quit only c loses one kernel, while CloseKernels closes all open kernels. Other ideas? I also

f ind strange that Quit and CloseKernels are not related in the documentation. I n my opinion this is wrong.

magma Oct 17 '12 at 22:41

@magma as far as I know Quit[] c loses the master kernel and so also all slave kernels. RMMA Oct 19 '12at 12:27

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