Nothing I know would prohibit renaming any (non-OS system) file in the
Finder, assuming you reset any permissions, etc., that might otherwise
inhibit doing that. But then Mathematica would not still list it on the
Style Sheet menu.
On 9/13/11 7:21 AM, AES wrote:
> In article<j4kfej$kc9$1...@smc.vnet.net>,
> John Fultz<jfu...@wolfram.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:29:17 -0400 (EDT), Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>>> How does one create (and save!) a new style sheet in Mathematica 8?
>>>
>>> One way that used to work in earlier versions was:
>>>
>>> 1. Open a new notebook, say Untitled-1.nb.
>>>
>>> 2. From the menu, select Format> Edit StyleSheet, which pops up a
>>> "Private Style Defintions for Untitled-1.nb" style sheet.
>>>
>>> 3. Edit that popped-up style sheet.
>>
>> At this point, press the Install button on the toolbar. That will save it on
>> your stylesheet path where it will automatically be found and populated into
>> the
>> menus.
>
> Thanks to both posers for terse and useful recipe here. Two brief
> extensions:
>
> 1) I'm assuming one can give this new stylesheet a new name before
> (or while?) installing it? Can one also rename it, using the Mac
> Finder, afterwards?
>
> 2) Suppose you want to further edit this stylesheet later on. Is the
> recommended procedure just to navigate to it (in the FInder, if you're
> on a Mac); open it (as a notebook); edit it; then re-install it?
>
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I have never found creating style sheets easy - and I generally avoid
them, despite their obvious value.
It would be great if the process could be made more transparent. For
example:
1) It would be nice to press a button and see the hierarchy of style
sheets leading to the notebook style sheet - preferably with their full
pathnames.
2) What happens when a style sheet is installed - is it just placed
somewhere in the filestore?
3) Editing a style sheet seems too much like editing a notebook -
which leads to confusion as to what can and cannot be done.
4) If you end up with an edited style sheet when you close the
associated file (or Mathematica), I think it should tell you and ask you
what you want to do - just like you do not lose an edited notebook
without pressing "Don't Save".
This is one area where I sense WRI developers have put enormous effort,
but it never seems easy to use. Maybe a general, open discussion at the
conference would help.
David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk