Mathematica Tutorial: Notebooks And Documents - Wolfram Research

Ordinary Mathematica notebooks can be read by non-Mathematica users using the free product,12 Notebooks and DocumentsMathematica Player, which allows viewing and printing, but does not allow computations of anykind to be performed. This product also supports notebook player files (.nbp), which have beenspecially prepared by Wolfram Research to allow interaction with dynamic content such as theoutput of Manipulate. For example, all the notebook content on The Wolfram DemonstrationsProject site is available as notebook player files.Mathematica front endMathematica kernelMathematica Playercreating and editing Mathematica notebooksdoing computations in notebooksreading Mathematica notebooks and runningDemonstrationsPrograms required for different kinds of operations with notebooks.Working with CellsMathematica notebooks consist of sequences of cells. The hierarchy of cells serves as a structurefor organizing the information in a notebook, as well as specifying the overall look of thenotebook.Font, color, spacing, and other properties of the appearance of cells are controlled usingstylesheets. The various kinds of cells associated with a notebook's stylesheet are listed inFormat Style. Mathematica comes with a collection of color and black-and-white stylesheets,which are listed in the Format Stylesheet menu.In a New Session:When Mathematica is first started, it displays an empty notebook with a blinking cursor. Youcan start typing right away.The insertion point is indicated by the cell insertion bar, a solid gray line with a small blackcursor running horizontally across the notebook. The cell insertion bar is the place where new