Questions on typesetting and making your expressions, matrices, operators, equations or formulae look how you want them to.
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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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Light syntax parser for Mathematica?
My netbook is too slow to install Mathematica. I'm not set against working in a text editor, but I like having an automated highlighting/formatting environment; can anyone recommend a good gedit ...
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How to use $\LaTeX$ for typesetting labels and titles in Mathematica
I need to typeset large number of equations to be used for PlotLabel and Titles and such. These have to look nice. Hence I use ...
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How can I make a cell that contains an image which can be shifted?
When you look at some help pages, they may have cells containing images which are movable within the cell when you left-click and drag the mouse.
Here is a sample: ...
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Why don't these styling rules work when viewed in TableForm?
m = RandomInteger[{-5, 5}, {10, 10}];
m /. {x__, y_ /; y > 0} -> Style[{x, y}, Red]
% // TableForm
When m without style ...
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A Symbol with Subscript and Superscript as an Axis Label
I am trying to have the symbol $\epsilon_{9/2,4}^-$ as the axis label in a graph in Mathematica. First problem is that: when I use Subscript[$\epsilon$,9/2,4], 9/2 changes to $\frac{9}{2}$ (which I ...
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How can I prevent kets to from growing too large?
In TraditionalForm, Mathematica formats kets incorrectly in certain expressions.
For example, if used in a summation with indices indicated, a ket becomes too ...
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How to type function terms into metric?
I submitted my question before on site:Anything wrong with Atlas 2 or Mathematica?. Due to my vagueness, my problems might not be clearly understood.
I am trying to solve several functions based on ...
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Fixing quirky typesetting in plot labels
Consider this example plot.
Plot[
1-Exp[-x],
{x,0,3},
AxesLabel->{"thickness (\[Mu]m)","power density (W/m^2)"}
]
Let us hold the typographical quality ...
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Prevent Suppression of Superscript 1 in Print
I'm trying to print Christoffel symbols of the second kind for a surface in $\mathbb R^3$. I currently am using something along the lines of
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1answer
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Why can't I change the style of a cell repeatedly?
I ran into this when I was working with an example from the Help Pages of V9. Cells is a new function added in V9. The following appears to work the first time it ...
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1answer
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Can one optimize AutomaticNumbering feature?
If one wants to use the automatic numbering feature of Mathematica, he has to make tags for cells of the type he wants to be referenced to. Then, as soon as he needs to make a reference to the tagged ...
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Problem when merging cells including commentary
This is a more of a problem report than a question.
When merging the two cells
Cell1:
foo
(*foobar*)
bar
and Cell2:
...
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Efficient Data Entry / Manipulation with Many Datasets
I currently have a simple task of graphing many different datasets (26 here, with many different instances where I'll need to do, say, 26 different ones from the same template). I'm trying to ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut for Centered Math Cell?
I've been typesetting in mathematica and would like to know if it is possible to use a keyboard shortcut to place a centered math cell or equation symbol aligned math cell in my document without ...
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How do I reassign canonical ordering of symbols?
I have a big polynomial that evaluates to:
$$A^2 e^2 \phi ^- \phi ^++A e \phi ^- \phi ^+ c_{2 w}
g_Z+\frac{1}{2} A e g h W^- \phi ^+ +\ll13\gg,$$
which is supposed to represent some terms in the ...
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2answers
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How to set the background of a section to light gray?
How to set the background of a section to light gray and leave background of content below and above the section as default?
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How can you combine lines in LATEX, and lines Mathematica?
supose that You want to make a report about the golden section algorithm, and you want to explain the proccess with text in LATEX, and in every iteration you want to show in that report the values ...
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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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Table formatting in GUIKit [closed]
I am writing a program with the GUIKit` package, but I have a problem with table output. I can't get a mathematical formula in the table (number 1 and 2 in below ...
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4answers
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Adding Math to Plots
I have several formulas I would like to place at specific coordinates in a Graphics object I have already created. I need to be able to choose bold or not as well ...
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Why doesn't Dot work on typeset vectors?
When I try to do scalar product of vectors I get the following message:
Is there a specific way to input the vectors? I'm doing it as the Basic Math Assistant palette suggests, typing {, Ctrl+,, } ...
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5answers
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Creating ordered triplets from an Excel sheet
I have an Excel sheet of the form:
" " a b c
1 R S T
2 U V W
3 X Y Z
Where every entry is a number (except the blank quotes, ...
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1answer
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How can I format Mathematica expressions for $\LaTeX$ without manual intervention? [closed]
I want to show my work to my audience mathematically. My audience is not interested in Mathematica but in the math itself, so I want $\LaTeX$ output. I tried ...
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1answer
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How can one type a box with “x” marked?
In some text portion of my notebook, I would like to be write check boxes which are empty, check marked or "x" marked.
The following commands work for the first two:
...
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1answer
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OpenGl Z-Order Equivalent in Mathematica?
I am trying to draw the arrows in this picture on top of the two parallel plates. In OpenGL I would just set the 4th coordinate the z-order to be closer. Any ideas how to draw them on top in ...
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vote
1answer
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How to apply multiple format to a list
I have a nested list like
matrix = {{1.2345664, 2.38673956, 3.567846}, {0.00034554, 124.4554654,
6.34543}, {0.0000233, 244.34454, 2}}
and I want to apply ...
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2answers
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How to make Mathematica returns the exact expression I typed
I'm using Mathematica to compare some constants. Before playing around with those constants, I would like to check that I didn't make any mistake in typing them. So my question is the following: "What ...
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Entering Sum in traditional form
The documentation for Sum says that it is possible to replace Sum by EscsumEsc. The limits ($i_\max$ and $i_\min$) should be ...
3
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1answer
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How to force Pane to always scroll to end of content? [duplicate]
Mathematica seems to know about the actual end of content position in a Pane if given large enough (but not too large$^1$) initial position value. Here, the ...
2
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1answer
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Mathematica Presentation Cell Formatting
In one of the Mathematica (v9) slide templates, they have an example cell that looks like this:
Where there is a "SideCaption" that appears to be the Mathematica-equivalent of a text box to the ...
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How stretch curly brace on multi-line text?
What's the cell option (or other technique) to use to stretch the curly brace that one typically uses in traditional math to group several displayed equations? Like this:
And is there any better ...
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1answer
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How to format complex fractions? Reciprocals? [closed]
How do I recreate this problem with this answer in mathematica? And similar problems?
I tried: (4 ab^3)/(a^2)/(8 a^2 b)/(b^2) but that outputs ...
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1answer
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Cell background color changes cell layout
When I change the background color of a cell like in
the colored cells become slightly indented and their line spacing is increased.
How can I change the cell background color while keeping the ...
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2answers
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How to change default settings of cell formatting?
I find font size of Text cells too small and I like displaying them with background colour... I've read this question and learned about ...
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6answers
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bar and hat only apply to certain letters
(I'm navigated from stackoverflow.com where I asked almost the same question)
I'm a beginner in Mathematica. Like shown in the image below, I'm trying to put hat ...
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What is the most convenient way to read definitions of in-memory symbols when we don't have the source files?
Note: I put Simon's implementation on GitHub. Contributions welcome!
When trying to read the definition of already defined (package or built-in) symbols using ...
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1answer
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How does MakeBoxes handle an n-ary operator?
I want to format results from Reduce using the $\cup$ symbol instead of the $\lor$ symbol. For example, ...
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How do you force line spacing to be uniform when a line contains characters with vector or overdot?
A persistent problem I've run into is that certain character decorations within the text of a paragraph will often add extra line spacing even if there is already plenty of space between lines. This ...
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Updating the format style of input cells from an older/'pre-styled' notebook
I have been given a large notebook that was created in mathematica 6. It contains a structure of sections and subsections and the input text is formatted in an unusual (possibly just old) style (see ...
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Highlighting bracketing in Mathematica [duplicate]
I'm working with lists of lists of lists. Each box with information has a specific format like
information = {{a},{{b}},{{{c},{d}},{e,{f}}},{g}}
and so ...
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Is there a convenient way to copy/paste text-interspersed SE code snippets into Mathematica?
Is there a way to copy and paste code snippets from SE to Mathematica if these snippets are interspersed with text?
Like e.g. in Morphing Graphics, color and location in both the question and answer, ...
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1answer
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Exclude Sections/Subsections/… from evaluation
I'm working on a large notebook and I want to exclude some sections and subsections from being evaluated when I evaluate the whole notebook.
Is there a way to exclude specific sections or ...
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Why use Column with Rows instead of Grid?
In general, what are the advantages of using Grid versus a combination of Column and Row? Is Grid better in some situations but not others?
For example, is there any reason why one would do this:
...
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An issue with formulas typesetting in Grid & Column
I tried to construct a small sheet with text and equations presented in a convenient publishing form, using Column:
...
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1answer
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How to make “Text” Cell which does not auto-format in TraditionalForm in-line math expressions?
This is a continuation of the previous post: How to enter textual subscripts and superscripts?.
When dealing with complex in-line math expressions inside a "Text" ...
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How to enter textual subscripts and superscripts?
When I add a sub- or superscript to a letter in a "Text" cell using the "Writing Assistant" palette this letter becomes Italic:
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