Mathematica
Tutor
Part 4:
Text
- To make remarks or
other notes that are not calculations, you may enter text
as you would in any word processor. Click in the notebook to
get a cell insertion bar, as you did to create a new input cell.
Then choose Text from the Style submenu of the Format menu. Type
some text -- your name, for example. Notice that the characters
are a different font and indentation. This is a text cell. If you
press RETURN, you obtain another line in the same text cell. Type
text on this line as well.
- Click on the cell
bracket of the text cell you have just created. The bracket is
highlighted. Select a style from the Style submenu, such as
Section. The cell will be changed to the new style. You can use
the Style submenu to change back and forth between Text, Input,
and other styles.
- Occasionally you
may see something in a input cell that looks like
(* This is just a comment. *)
Anything between (* and *) will be ignored by
Mathematica, even when you press SHIFT-RETURN. Make a new
input cell and verify this for yourself.
Remember: by default,
new cells are input cells.
