Tightly integrated into Mathematica's core language is a rich set of primitives for interacting with external environments. Mathematica's symbolic architecture makes possible ...

Mathematica provides convenient and efficient system-independent functions for handling file-related constructs at all levels.

DialogInput[expr] interactively puts up expr as a dialog notebook, waits until a DialogReturn[e] is evaluated from within it, and then returns the result e. DialogInput[{x = ...

If you enter text in languages other than English, you will typically need to use various additional accented and other characters. If your computer system is set up in an ...

LimitsPositioning is an option for UnderoverscriptBox and related boxes that specifies whether to change the positioning of underscripts and overscripts in the way ...

StyleDefinitions is an option for notebooks that gives definitions for the styles that can be used in a notebook.

The hierarchy of levels at which options can be set. Here is a notebook containing three cells. This is what happens when the setting CellFrame->True is made specifically for ...

Ever since Version 3 of Mathematica, there has been rich support for arbitrary mathematical typesetting and layout. Underlying all that power was a so-called box language, ...

Documentation Center navigation shortcuts. Window cycling shortcuts. Scrolling shortcuts.

Typical ways to enter characters. All printable ASCII characters can be entered directly. Those that are not alphanumeric are assigned explicit names in Mathematica, allowing ...