Prolog (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Prolog is an option for graphics functions which gives a list of graphics primitives to be rendered before the main part of the graphics is rendered.

ScrollingOptions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ScrollingOptions -> {opt_1 -> val_1, opt_2 -> val_2, ...} is an option for notebooks that specifies settings for scrolling.

SlotSequence (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

## represents the sequence of arguments supplied to a pure function. ## n represents the sequence of arguments supplied to a pure function, starting with the ...

StringInsert (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StringInsert["string", " snew", n] yields a string with " snew" inserted starting at position n in " string". StringInsert["string", " snew", -n] inserts at position n from ...

Timing (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Timing[expr] evaluates expr, and returns a list of the time in seconds used, together with the result obtained.

Trigger (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Trigger[Dynamic[u]] represents a trigger that can be pressed to make the dynamically updated value of u be continually increased with time from 0 to 1. Trigger[Dynamic[u], ...

$CharacterEncoding (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$CharacterEncoding specifies the default raw character encoding to use for input and output functions.

Files and Streams (Mathematica Tutorial)

Conventions for file names. Most files used by Mathematica are completely system independent. .mx and .exe files are however system dependent. For these files, there is a ...

Front End Tokens (Mathematica Tutorial)

Front end tokens let you perform kernel commands that would normally be done using the menus. Front end tokens are particularly convenient for writing programs to manipulate ...

Functions as Procedures (Mathematica Tutorial)

In many kinds of calculations, you may find yourself typing the same input to Mathematica over and over again. You can save yourself a lot of typing by defining a function ...