TabFilling is an option for character selections that specifies how a Tab character is represented on the screen.

Temporary is an attribute assigned to symbols which are created as local variables by Module.

Thumbnail[image] gives a thumbnail version of an image.Thumbnail[image, size] gives a thumbnail with the specified maximum pixel size.

UpdateInterval is an option to Refresh and Dynamic that specifies at what time interval to do updates.

WindowClickSelect is a notebook option that specifies whether the window for the notebook should become selected if you click it.

WindowFloating is a notebook option that specifies whether the window for the notebook should float on top of other windows when it is displayed on the screen.

The Mathematica functions Reduce, Resolve, and FindInstance allow you to solve a wide variety of problems that can be expressed in terms of equations and inequalities. The ...

Specifying formats for text in graphics. Here is a plot with default settings for all formats. Here is the same plot, but now using a 12-point bold font.

The fundamental paradigm of most computer languages, including Mathematica, is that input is given and processed into output. Historically, such input has consisted of ...

Many aspects of the Mathematica front end such as the styles of cells, the appearance of notebooks, or the parameters used in typesetting are controlled by options. For ...