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BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
Cell
Cell[contents]
is the low-level representation of a cell inside a Mathematica notebook.
Cell[contents, "style"]
represents a cell in the specified style.
Details
- Mathematica notebooks consist of lists of Cell objects.
- You can see the form of a cell as an expression by using the Show Expression menu command in the standard Mathematica front end.
- You can access cells in a notebook directly using the front end. You can also access the cells from the kernel using NotebookRead and NotebookWrite, or using Options, and SetOptions on NotebookSelection[obj].
- The contents of cells can be the following:
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"text" plain text TextData[exprs] general text objects BoxData[boxes] formatted Mathematica expressions OutputFormData["itext","otext"]text as generated by OutputForm RawData[data] unformatted expressions GraphicsData["type",data] non-expression graphics or sound data CellGroupData[{cell1,cell2,...},status] group of cells StyleData["style"] sample cell for a particular style - In any given notebook, a collection of possible cell styles is defined, typically with names such as
, 
, 
, and 
. - Cells can have many options, including:
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Background the color of the background for the cell CellFrame whether to draw a frame around the cell CellTags tags for the cell Editable whether to allow the contents of the cell to be edited FontSize the default size of text in the cell TextAlignment how to align text in the cell
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