Textual Forms (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica provides standardized special characters to represent various forms commonly used to annotate or structure text.

XML Import & Export (Mathematica Guide)

As the world's best-developed tree-oriented symbolic language, Mathematica is uniquely suited to working with XML. Not only can Mathematica generate XML from scratch, it can ...

DirectoryQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DirectoryQ["name"] gives True if the directory with the specified name exists, and gives False otherwise.

Editable (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Editable is an option for displayed objects, cells, and notebooks that specifies whether their contents can be edited interactively using the front end.

FileExistsQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FileExistsQ["name"] gives True if the file with the specified name exists, and gives False otherwise.

Selectable (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Selectable is an option for displayed objects, cells, and notebooks that specifies whether their contents can be selected interactively using the front end.

SetSystemOptions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SetSystemOptions["name" -> value] resets the value for the internal system option with the specified name.

SystemOpen (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SystemOpen["target"] opens the specified file, URL, or other target with the associated program on your computer system.

WindowFrame (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WindowFrame is a notebook option that specifies the type of frame to draw around the window in which the notebook is displayed on the screen.

$ScriptCommandLine (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$ScriptCommandLine is a list of strings giving the elements of the command line with which the standalone Mathematica script was invoked.