Boxes are the underlying representation of two-dimensional forms in notebooks.
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How to convert a notebook cell to a string retaining all formatting, colorization of identifiers etc?
I have an opened Mathematica notebook containing several cells. Suppose, I am interested in one of them -- it may contain a complete or incomplete expression (e.g. with syntax errors, highlighted ...
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How to embed an image into a string?
The documentation for String contains the following statements:
Strings can contain any sequence of ordinary and special characters:
…
Strings preserve ...
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How to convert comment in RowBox to DisplayForm string
ToExpression[RowBox[{"a","(*","what", "*)"}],StandardForm]
This conversion above ignores the commment content (*what*)
The ...
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Notebook vs. DocumentNotebook; display a Notebook inline, like a DocumentNotebook
If you evaluate a DocumentNotebook[] expression in the front-end, it nicely displays inline, inside of an output cell in the current notebook:
For my purposes, ...
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Combination of CellPrint and PrintTemporary, or DisplayForm for Cells
I'm programmatically generating some formatted output that generates a cell in the form of a Cell[] expression. For instance, the output might be
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On Reverting Code that Mma Switches to Raw Input Form Back to Standard Form
I experienced a similar issue to what is described in this post while editing formatted usage messages (that contained italics) in the declaration section of a package that I'm developing in the ...
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Vertical “fractions” with more than 2 parts
Standard FractionBox syntax allows only 2 arguments and creates 2-part fraction for numerator and denominator.
Is it possible to draw similar construction, but ...
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Extracting text from cells, preserving non-ASCII characters
Consider the following setup, based on this answer by WReach:
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Unexpected result when reading Cell with comment-lines by NotebookRead
When considering this question about re-formatting Cell (also this one), I encountered an issue which confuses me. I'll let the code itself speak:
Consider the ...
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How to change brackets in TraditionalForm output
I'm trying to improve TraditionalForm's output by using different brackets when there are more than one. For instance, instead of $u(v(r(b))))$, I'd like to get ...
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Subscript and Part: What's going on in this example?
Example
I came across the following simple example from A Beginner's Guide to Mathematica, by McMahon and Topa, which I believe was written circa version 5.2. (FWIW, I'm using v9.)
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Prevent front-end from reformatting long fractions while editing
I am editing an expression containing wide fractions (typeset with fraction boxes):
But if, while editing the equation, the fraction exceeds some threshold (seems to be approximately the window ...
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How can I get the unchanged Box form of an arbitrary expression?
One may observe that MakeBoxes does not give the actual Box form of various expressions:
MakeBoxes[{1*^4, 000123, a*b c}]
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Tokenize Mathematica input in a simple way
Background
Usually, I give detailed descriptions when I have a question which sometimes lead to that users don't write their answers because they maybe think their answer is too simple. Therefore, I ...
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How do I mimic the functionality of “<>”?
The Cell expression for:
<>
is
Cell[BoxData["<>"], "Input"]
However similar expressions are parsed into ...
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Formatted text in a Dynamic or Manipulate control
I am using a Manipulate control to show different calculations for the same user-specified parameters. I would like to show the results for the calculation the ...
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Strange setting in FormatValues[MakeExpression]
My sytem is: 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (October 5, 2011)
When I start Mathematica and call
FormatValues[MakeExpression]
I get the following output:
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Pasting TemplateBox with a Dynamic argument
Ok, this is pretty specific...
The objective is to use a TemplateBox to format something that is programatically inserted with ...
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Is there a way to have a Tooltip for non-editable raster graphics produced by MakeBoxes?
I have a function which produces a large object I would like to hide. Formatting is of course an option but I'm hoping for something a little more meaningful using raster graphics and ...
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How to avoid spaces between numbers when displaying TagBox(es)
The instruction :
DisplayForm[RowBox[List[0,1,Superscript[2,3],Superscript[1,2],a]]]
displays a gap between the first two items of the list
but if one is ...
