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i've been mucking around in KeyEventTranslations.tr setting up keyboard shortcuts recently and i've learned that front end tokens are pretty cool. the wolfram page:http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/FrontEnd/FrontEndTokens gives pretty good docs.

anyway, here are three that i had to work a little to get going (with good help from the mathgroup, as always).

• for a quit kernel keyboard shortcut, add the following to

 KeyEventTranslations.tr:
       Item[KeyEvent["q", Modifiers -> {Control, Option}],
               FrontEndExecute[
                       FrontEndToken[
                                SelectedNotebook[ ],
                                "EvaluatorQuit",
                                Automatic
                       ]
               ]
       ]

• for an initialization cell toggle keyboard shortcut (repeated from previous thread), add the following to

KeyEventTranslations.tr:
      Item[KeyEvent["i", Modifiers -> {Command, Control}],
               FrontEndExecute[
                       FrontEndToken[
                               SelectedNotebook[ ],
                               "InitializationCell",
                               "Toggle"
                       ]
               ]
       ]

• for a save as package keyboard shortcut, add the following to

KeyEventTranslations.tr:
       Item[KeyEvent["k", Modifiers -> {Control, Option}], SaveRenameSpecial["Package"]]

Un titre

A title

Une cellule contenant du texte en français

A cell with an english content

4 commandes pour activer ou désactiver le français ou l'anglais

Pour que cela fonctionne il faut d'abord avoir "tagger" les cellules (ci-dessous) en français ou en anglais.

Désactiver le français (valider pour voir le résultat qui affecte le haut du notebook)

Activer le français (valider pour voir le résultat qui affecte le haut du notebook)

Désactiver l'anglais (valider pour voir le résultat qui affecte le haut du notebook)

Activier l'anglais (valider pour voir le résultat qui affecte le haut du notebook)

Commentaire : on pourrait mettre ces fonctions dans des boutons. Reste à gérer les espacements entre cellules...

Created by Mathematica  (July 5, 2005)