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TortoiseSVN (as well as other Tortoise clients ) include a script to diff notebook files in Mathematica. Diff functionality for Mathematica is implemented in the AuthorTools package (perhaps there is something better?) The script currently works by creating a small notebook file in the temp directory, and opening it in the front end. The notebook has a big button that will do the diff and has the file names to be diffed hard coded. A disadvantage is that the notebook with the diff code will be left in the temp directory, and won't be cleaned up. It also seems unnecessary to have an auxiliary

TLDR : How do I get CapsLock to translate to "ShortNameDelimiter" in Mma 7? I like pretty text in my mma notebooks, and often define functions as f[\[Alpha]_] =... so as to match the exact equation that I'm working with. As such, it involves a lot of Esc - letter - Esc sequences, and reaching for Esc every other stroke breaks my flow of typing. Now, the CapsLock key is seldom used (I can't remember the last time I needed it), but conveniently placed (your pinky is right there!). Remapping it to Esc on vim worked wonders for me and I was wondering if there was a way to do the same in mma ,

Update Mr Wizard's answer gives pixel-perfect results, but it is Windows-only and destroys the clipboard contents. My answer should work on any platform, but it's less precise: e.g. it omits In/Out labels. It does allow setting the rasterization width though. This problem came up when I was trying to make a preview window for an image uploader (see the end of that answer). I would like to create a palette button that will upload the current notebook selection as an image. Before uploading, I would like to show a preview of the image, to reduce the chance of something going awry before

I tried to follow the directions on autonumbering cells in a Mathematica-8 notebook, here http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/AutomaticNumbering.html I created a tiny notebook with four text cells foo qux blancmange bar Placing the cursor just before foo , I then used the Insert menu, Automatic numbering item, giving me the Create Automatic Numbering Object dialog box. I chose in the Counter dropdown then item Text , clicked This counter object radio button, and Huzzah! got the number 1 just before foo , presumably referring to the first cell of type Text in the notebook. I now

Usage Messages of built-in functions have embedded in-line formatting. For example: In[1]:= ActionMenu::usage // FullForm Out[1]//FullForm= "\!\(\*RowBox[{\"ActionMenu\", \"[\", RowBox[{StyleBox[\"name\", \"TI\ \"], \",\", RowBox[{\"{\", \ RowBox[{RowBox[{SubscriptBox[StyleBox[\"lbl\", \"TI\"], \ StyleBox[\"1\", \"TR\"]], \":>\", SubscriptBox[StyleBox[\"act\", \"TI\ \"], StyleBox[\"1\", \"TR\"]]}], \",\", \ RowBox[{SubscriptBox[StyleBox[\"lbl\", \"TI\"], StyleBox[\"2\", \ \"TR\"]], \":>\", SubscriptBox[StyleBox[\"act\", \"TI\"], \ StyleBox[\"2\", \"TR\"]]}], \",\", StyleBox[\"\[Ellipsis]\", \