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StuartBruff23-Emerald V
23-Emerald V
October 7, 2024
Question

Automatic Paragraph, Equation and Figure Numbering

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_E
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_E
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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