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StuartBruff23-Emerald V
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October 7, 2024
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Automatic Paragraph, Equation and Figure Numbering

  • October 7, 2024
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Are there plans for Mathcad Prime to include automatic paragraph, equation and figure numbering?

 

It's not ideal, but MP10's Advanced Controls allow a rudimentary form of entity numbering. 

 

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The topic has been broached several times since at least Mathcad 11.

 

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/Mathcad-and-articles-for-Journals/m-p/442066

 

Stuart

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
October 7, 2024

Nice approach!

 

BTW, have you ever tried to create or copy a button in/into a text region?

 

 

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StuartBruff23-Emerald VAuthor
23-Emerald V
October 7, 2024
@Werner_E wrote:

BTW, have you ever tried to create or copy a button in/into a text region?

Just a moment, ....

 

Yes.  😁

 

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It's interesting how you can paste certain things into placeholders, etc, but not insert/type them directly (yes, 3-place range operator, I'm looking at you!).

 

Stuart

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
October 7, 2024

That's crazy!

I asked because I noticed that we cannot create an advanced control in a text region but we happily can create a Text Box outside and copy it there.
When I tried the same with a button I ended up with a button stretched infinitely horizontally - impossible to resize.

After seeing you reply here I tried again and it worked flawless. Not sure what was going on last time.

 

EDIT

Ahhhhh!!

I was able to reproduce the error!

Create a button outside of the text region and before you copy it, resize it horizontally. Then copy it to the text region.

As you can see in the picture, copying a button (test2) which was not resized experiences not this problem, but it looks like we can't resize controls once they are inserted in a text region.
This all smells like a very bad bug.

BTW, don't try to copy a button which was scaled vertically (test3). You have been warned!

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