[WSG21] Daily Study Groups featuring Notebooks: Intro and Going Further

Ideas
, , , , ,
1

On October 18th we will begin our next Daily Study Group series that will focus on “Notebooks”. As a cohort of online learners we will work through the Wolfram U interactive course “Introduction to Notebooks” in short sessions hosted by Wolfram-certified instructors, that will feature live Q&A, review exercises, and additional examples on topics covered in the course. This study group will help you achieve the “Course Completion” certificate for the “Introduction to Notebooks” course after you complete the course quizzes.

We will follow up the two weeks of the “Introduction to Notebooks” study group with a week-long study group on “Going Further with Notebooks” which will feature additional material that builds on the introductory course. A certificate of program completion will be available for this series as well.

Please sign up here:

We will continue discussion on the topics covered in these study groups on this thread. Looking forward to the questions and shared ideas about using notebooks.

7 Likes
2

Question of the day: What is one notebook feature that you have found especially useful in your work?

3

I enjoy the feature that allow inserting code from other programming languages into the notebook. Additionally, the ability to convert notebook cells into LaTeX or the feature that allows inserting inline LaTeX expressions into cells have made mathematical typesetting quick and easy.

As of version 12.3, using the drawing tools is much easier than the previous versions.

2 Likes
4

Are the videos we’re viewing in the class sessions available online, other than in the meeting recording?

5

Here:
https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u/introduction-to-notebooks/quick-overview-of-functions-features.html

6

A nice post on community about a custom stylesheet: Dracula Theme for Wolfram Notebooks

7

Thank you!

8

Is there a way to maintain the syntax coloring in PDF or any other exports?

1 Like
9

Folding and unfolding the groups of cells :slight_smile:

2 Likes
10
  1. How can I find your saved response to my inquiry in the class?
  2. How do I get a temporary online account? I planned using my home Mathematica, but realized that links to the files in the NB version of a lesson point to the files stored in the cloud.
11

Hi Michael,
Here are the two links I shared with you during the session:

Also we will upload a weekly digest of all the Q&A transcripts from this week. That should be a helpful resource since we received a lot of great questions during the study group sessions.

You can sign up for the Wolfram One trial subscription at Wolfram Account
or Mathematica trial at Download a Free Trial of Mathematica

Feel free to email info@wolfram.com if you run into any issues with the trial versions.

12

Hi James,
Thanks for an excellent question. Unfortunately I do not have an answer for you yet but I have reached out for more information. I’ll post on the thread as soon as I have something.

13

Resource of the day: A great video class explaining the Manipulate function: https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u/catalog/gen702/

2 Likes
14

You need to set the “ShowSyntaxStyles” option to True. For example:

SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[],PrintingStyleEnvironment -> "Printout", ShowSyntaxStyles -> True]
Export[FileNameJoin[{NotebookDirectory[], "ShowSyntaxStylesPrintout.pdf"}], EvaluationNotebook[]];
SystemOpen[%]

Attached is an example notebook and the corresponding PDF.

PresrveSyntaxColoringPDF.nb (10.9 KB)
ShowSyntaxStylesPrintout.pdf (58.9 KB)

2 Likes
15

Getting two columns in a notebook

The notebook does not support content in two columns automatically. But you can create a Grid to get it in two columns. Try:

{col1, col2} = 
  StringTakeDrop[ExampleData[{"Text", "DeclarationOfIndependence"}], 
   4500 - 42];
Grid[{{col1, col2}}]

or

Grid[{Style[#, FontFamily -> "Times"] & /@ {col1, col2}}]
1 Like
16

Interactive Wordcloud

Open in Wolfram Cloud ↗
1 Like
17

You found it! Thank you!

I don’t mean to sound greedy but is there an option I can set to preserve the syntax coloring when I copy and paste the Wolfram Language statements?

Thank you!

18

How do I remove a palette from the Palettes menu? I removed the palette’s .nb file from folder “C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\12.3\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\Palettes”, but the palette still appears in the Palettes menu. Also, I installed a palette but when I select it from the Palettes menu, the source .nb file appears and I explicitly have to run that file to get the palette to appear. I did use Cell > Cell Properties, to set the cell that generates the actual palette to be an Initialization Cell.

19

Hello Abrita and team,

Please ignore. This problem was resolved by a computer restart.

For sure this question is not part of this course, I hope you can address it.

While testing some concepts, and I don’t know why, all of a sudden all Mathematica window titles have jumped to a larger font, including the Mathematica desktop launch screen and, files, pallets, the option inspector window … which I open of which I’ll try to attach a screen shot of the launch screen. Stopping / restarting Mathematica was no remedy.

I didn’t attempt to do this, nor did I make any adjustments to the option inspector. Do you have any idea how this could be done, ie inadvertent key combination??

Any help would be appreciated to get back to a normal Mathematica window title font size.

Thanks,
John Burgers.

Screenshot _OP_2_CP_.jpg
Screenshot _OP_2_CP_.jpg1920×1080 291 KB

20

Thanks for sharing John. Another helpful hammer for the reasonably smaller nails :slight_smile: is the “clean start” as explained here: Wolfram Support Quick Answers: How do I fix common problems by resetting Mathematica 14.0 to its default configuration?

1 Like