New in 6.0: Notebooks & Documents
Version 6.0 greatly extended Mathematica's powerful symbolic document paradigm, integrating support for editable symbolic graphics, structure-programmable table layouts, active annotations, and dynamic interactive controls—and allowing all aspects of notebooks and documents to be created directly in terms of simple symbolic constructs.
New Formatting & Styling Functions »
double-click cell bracket — hide any part of a cell group, e.g. leaving only results visible
Style — direct access to all styling options for any expression
Bold ▪ Italic ▪ Underlined ▪ Text ▪ Framed ▪ Labeled
Format ▶ Edit Stylesheet — now supporting cascading stylesheets
New Active Elements
Hyperlink ▪ Tooltip ▪ Mouseover ▪ PopupWindow ▪ Dynamic ▪ Manipulate ▪ ...
New Grid & Layout Functions »
Grid — lay out a grid of elements with many styling, spacing, framing, etc. options
SpanFromLeft, ... — full support for spanning rows and columns
Row ▪ Column ▪ Spacer ▪ GraphicsGrid ▪ ...
New Document Generation Functions »
CreateDocument — immediately create any notebook document
TextCell ▪ CellGroup ▪ DocumentNotebook ▪ ...
New Graphics Formatting »
Graphics, Graphics3D (modified) — now with inline display, interactivity, etc.
Graphics ▶ Drawing Tools — draw or edit graphics interactively
New Notebook & Session Options
CellContext — cell- and notebook-localizable variable scoping
$OutputSizeLimit ▪ CellEvaluationFunction ▪ CellEventActions ▪ ...
WindowSize (modified) — now supports full-screen mode (
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DockedCells ▪ WindowOpacity ▪ NotebookDirectory
New Document & Export Types
New ▶ Package (.m) — native .m semantics-enhanced package editor
New ▶ Slide Show ▪ New ▶ Demonstration ▪ ...