Configuring Mosaic for Macintosh to use
Mathematica.
Mosaic for the Macintosh provides a point-and-click method for
customization through its
Options pulldown menu. Below is
enumerated the procedure to associate the
Mathematica
application with
Mathematica documents served from a
Web server.
- From the Options pulldown menu select Preferences...
- Click on the Apps icon on the left side of the window.
- Click on the the Helper Applications... button. This brings
up the Helper configuration dialog box.
- Click on the Add Document Type... button in the Helper
configuration dialog box.
- Enter application/mathematica as the name of the
new document type.
- Click on OK. application/mathematica will
now appear in the Document Type -> Application list.
- Select application/mathematica from the
Document Type -> Application list. The Set
Application... button will become active.
- Click on the Set Application... button, locate and then
double click on Mathematica. Yet another dialog box
will appear.
- In the new dialog box, the Ask for filename box shold not be
checked, the Launch automatically box should be checked.
- Click once on the TEXT icon in the bar across the top of
the box (this is the little image of a Mathematica
notebook).
- Click on OK.
- In the Helper configuration dialog box, click the
Add Extension... button.
- Supply .ma in the Extention: box, then select
mathematica/application from the MIME type:
pulldown menu.
- Click on OK.
The next time
Mosaic is launched, it will be able to launch
Mathematica with notebooks downloaded from the Web.
