Questions on typesetting and making your expressions, matrices, operators, equations or formulae look how you want them to.
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How to replace the style of the inline cell in a StyleSheet
I would like to change a StyleSheet in such a way that any text that is typed into the inline cell (the one created by Ctrl+9) is shown in a different font (e.g. the font of my choice). At present I ...
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1answer
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CDF and personalized style
I recently created a custom stylesheet. I then created a notebook with the new style, confirmed that the notebook had adopted the style, and then saved a copy in CDF. But when I opened the CDF in ...
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3answers
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Formula Formatting is Small and Chunky?
I'm sure I'm about to embarrass myself... but, here goes...
I can't read any (but the most basic) typeset formulas in Mathematica. The fonts are simply way too small on my 2560x1440 monitor.
If I ...
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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 ...
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2answers
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Tabs inside expression to format code
In a similar spirit to a question proffered several days back,and as that question stated,
Since the front-end is quite extendable my question is...
Does the front end provide any way to use ...
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3answers
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Managing formatted usage messages in Wolfram Workbench
We have numerous packages (defined in .m files) that we maintain and develop in WolframWorkbench (2.0), and in those packages, we use the traditional method of ...
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2answers
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A notebook created on demand from a main document showing executable input along with output cells
I would like to make Mathematica documents with hidden calculations, such that they can be visualized on demand. In general it can be done in several forms and I actually use some. I would like to ask ...
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1answer
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Automatic formatting of isotope symbols in a text cell
InputAutoReplacements is an obvious choice for formatting isotope names in text cells. I'd like to be able to type "1H", for ...
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1answer
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How to edit the text coming together with the numeration of pages in pdf produced out of a notebook?
I am writing a text that I am going to publish on-line. When I transform it from the notebook into the pdf format I get the numeration style typical for Mathematica:
I would like to edit the text ...
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0answers
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Usage displays properly only after second call
If I have a usage message containig two-dimensional stuff (subscripts or formulas) and I call the usage, then sometimes I get an improperly formatted output enclosed in "...". Linebreaks are gone, but ...
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6answers
433 views
Annoying display truncation of numerical results
I have a lot of data to inspect. An example of a number in my program is
123.189094
This gets displayed as
123.189
...
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1answer
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NIntegrate is resetting my variables and not giving me a result?
I am trying to check if mass conservation holds by integrating the area under a curve but to no avail.
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3answers
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Removing In/Out Labels before printing
I know that I can close a notebook and open it again in order to remove the In/Out labels. What I would like to know is if there is another easy way of removing these labels without having to close ...
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1answer
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Delete a style type from stylesheet
I have created a new stylesheet but now I'd like to delete a style type, for example "program" from it. How can I do it ?
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1answer
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Copy TraditionalForm output to TraditionalForm input while keeping formatting
When I want to copy a scientific notated number from a TraditionalForm output to an input it formats it in a weird way:
Another thing I want to do is only copy a few number of decimals, and remove ...
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1answer
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hat not big enough
I like to use Mathematica text cells for creating draft technical documents. When entering equations in a text cell, the ^ (hat accent) does not dynamically adjust its size to fit. It looks good if ...
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1answer
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How does AutoStyleWords work?
The title says it all. I assume it provides some way of automatically applying a certain style, or a list of options, to certain words written, just like other options of the sort like ...
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2answers
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Text in columns
So far I've only seen the front end work in a one-cell-below-the-other manner, so I am probably not expecting much of this question, but here it goes.
Is there any way to create a document with text ...
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3answers
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Best way to give presentations with Mathematica
I have typically used PowerPoint or plain PDFs of slides to give presentations, but with heavy mathematical content, it can be tedious to create these presentations and make them look good. How can I ...
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2answers
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Single dot textual form
How do I render a letter with a single dot above it?
I see \[DoubleDot] and \[TripleDot] are readily available, but what about ...
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WYSIWYG table creating and editing
In Microsoft Office OneNote 2010, creating and editing tables is easy. There are simple toolbar controls for creating tables:
,
and editing them once they exist:
.
My question is, what's an easy ...
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6answers
580 views
Producing cleaner Mathematica output
I asked this in chat and it turns out it would make for a good question make a posting for. I am writing up a handout type notebook and I'd like to have some clean output for presentation's sake.
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2answers
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Representing second derivatives with a double overdot
I would like to express a second derivative with two dots above the variable. You can do this with a first derivative by saying:
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2answers
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How to work around Column cutting off a pixel row from images?
I have a problem where Column will occasionally cut off a single pixel from the top of images.
To reproduce the problem, evaluate this:
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2answers
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Outline Numbering for Mathematica Section/Subsection Cells
I am trying to create a LaTex-style document with Section numbers of the form 1.0 and then subsection numbers 1.1, 2.1, etc. I need the numbering to be automatic such that if I insert a new ...
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How can I set a fixed cell height?
I did this often in previous versions of the Mathematica notebook front end. I would have a cell with lots of raw data, e.g. a very long list. The list might go on for pages. I would set the cell ...
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How to force neat linewrapping in Print?
I am regularly annoyed by the fact, that a neatly arranged Print statement gets ruined by a large piece of data, which - instead of linewrapping "in place" - is ...
