Cell Grouping Question
David Park
I would very much like to obtain the following cell grouping behavior: If a new cell
was started, especially a Text or Input Cell, I would like it to be grouped into the
lowest containing OPEN group. Then I could be working at the Section level say, start
a Subsection which would contain ancillary material, close up the Subsection, and
continue with the Section. But with present behavior any new material always goes
into the Subsection. Also to make the scheme workable, it would be necessary to be
able to set a new cell selection point either at the end of a subsection or beyond it
in the larger group.
Manual grouping is not an adequate solution since all the automatic grouping is given
up. And once you switch back to automatic grouping, any manual grouping done is lost.
I have somewhat mimicked this behavior by defining new cell types SubText and
SubSubText in my style sheet such that SubText is grouped at the same level as
Subsection.
Does anyone know an easier method to obtain the behavior described above?
David Park
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P.J. Hinton
"David Park" <dj...@earthlink.net> writes:
You can change the cell grouping precedences as defined in the notebook's
style sheet. This will give you the means of directing the front end
to use your preferences as "automatic grouping".
The decision as to whether a collection of cells will be grouped under
a single bracket is determined by the option setting CellGroupingRules
that resides within the style definition used by the cell. Option values
take the form
<grouping rule name>
{<grouping rule name>, <integer between 0 and 100>}
Grouping rule names that use strings only include "InputGrouping",
"OutputGrouping", and "GraphicsGrouping". Grouping rule names that use
strings with numbers include "TitleGrouping" and "SectionGrouping". The
numbers indicate a precedence level with 0 being highest and 100 being
lowest.
In general, if adjacent cells have styles which use the same grouping rule
name, the cells will be grouped only if the preceding cell has a higher
precedence level. Consider the placement of these two cells together.
Cell["cell A", CellGroupingRules->{"TitleGrouping", 10}]
Cell["cell B", CellGroupingRules->{"TitleGrouping", 20}]
These cells will be grouped together because the prior cell will have
higher precedence. However, the following cells will not group because
the precedence levels are reversed.
Cell["cell A", CellGroupingRules->{"TitleGrouping", 20}]
Cell["cell B", CellGroupingRules->{"TitleGrouping", 10}]
Things get a little more complicated when cells of unlike grouping rules
begin to appear next to one another. The rules here are:
1) "TitleGrouping" groups with any other cell that appears below it.
2) "SectionGrouping" groups with any other cell that appears below it
with the exception of those cells which have "Title" grouping.
3) "InputGrouping", "OutputGrouping", and "GraphicsGrouping" don't grop
with any cells that appear after them.
Finally, if a pair of cells group together, but a third, preceding cell
does not group with the first cell in the pair, then the pair will for its
own cell subgroup.
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P.J. Hinton
Mathematica Programming Group pa...@wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.