Questions on typesetting and making your expressions, matrices, operators, equations or formulae look how you want them to.
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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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Programmatic formatting for Mathematica code - possible?
It seems to be both an interesting programming challenge and a very useful practical application to have a Mathematica program which would allow one to pretty-print Mathematica code, so that it is ...
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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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Is there a way to hide or toggle the visibility of code?
Many of my notebooks have a similar repeating structure, which is very convenient and reliable for my workflow: a chunk of code defining a Manipulate for exploring ...
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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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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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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 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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5answers
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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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4answers
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Formatting a number with fixed number of significant digits
I need a formatting function (say format[x_, n_]) which outputs numbers with fixed n significant digits without unnecessary dot. ...
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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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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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6answers
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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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2answers
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How do I get the equivalent of the $\LaTeX$ \tag{} in Mathematica?
How do I get the equivalent of the $\LaTeX$ \tag{} in Mathematica?
$a+b=x \tag{1}$
I'm not necessarily asking how to use the $\LaTeX$ \tag{} itself in ...
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2answers
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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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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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Understanding Pie Chart Annulus generation and alternate style using Disk[]
Background
I have been working with a set of data for some time now and I recently decided to change the format. The data is a tree-styled listing of hierarchical names and positions.
(* Names ...
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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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How can I type left (sub)superscript?
I want to type in my variable next to its plot and I'm typing the text in using Inset. However my variable has superscripts to the left. Say it looks like this:
$ ...
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6answers
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How to make text flash for a short period
How could I display text that flashed red for a half second or so and then reverted to black? (Or was put in bold and reverted to normal, etc.)
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6answers
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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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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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votes
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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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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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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2answers
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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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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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3answers
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How to format a large Number
There is a large number
a = 123456789012345678901234567.123456789012345678901234567
By format with AccountingForm
...
2
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2answers
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Annotating plots with plain (not italicized) mathematical text
I have a plot and I would like to annotate some mathematical text in it. Initially, Mathematica puts it in italics by using Drawing tools palette, but I want it all in plain text. How can I do it? ...
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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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TextCell going awry due to ImageResolution (in Mathematica 7)
Can anyone see how to fix this text display? The example is from a larger project. I need to export the graphic at high resolution, but the text is going wrong.
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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 ...
