Questions on typesetting and making your expressions, matrices, operators, equations or formulae look how you want them to.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Convert operator to string
How to programmatically convert an operator such as Equilibrium into its displayed form as a string? The conversion should work like this:
...
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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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Best Practice to write ::usage for own package functions
I'm writing an own package with Mathematica, that I would like to make available for others. In order to do that (and for my own usage of the package), I would like to write ...
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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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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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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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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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How to improve the typesetting of mathematical contents
Until I started diving into Mathematica, I was not using much computer software for symbolic computation. I did my analysis by hand on blank sheets, the calculations using Python or MATLAB, and the ...
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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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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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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 ...
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Typeset unbalanced brackets
In LaTeX, you can typeset expressions containing unbalanced brackets, by balancing them with an invisible delimiter \left. or ...
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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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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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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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Can mathematica show me a fraction with a repeating decimal notation?
The value of 3/817 when expressed using the N[3/817, 100] shows me data without helping me see the repeating patterns:
After I ...
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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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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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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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Is there a way to base one style on another?
I'm setting up a stylesheet and and finding the process of defining related styles tedious and error prone. In particular, I have several related styles that need to have synchronized settings (e.g., ...
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Syntax Highlighting for Mathematica on a Blog
Every once in a while I want to paste Mathematica code on my blog. When I do, I would like it to be somewhat readable, and it would be nice to have syntax highlighting. So far all my searches have ...
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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 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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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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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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Difference in integral character heights
Above is an example of what happens. It seems that the first integral is longer than the second because the y-character is longer than the x-character as this doesn't happen with other ...
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Setting up TextStyle with initialization cells in Mathematica 6+
It used to be quite straightforward to change the default settings of a notebook in terms of inputs, outputs, text styles and font sizes in previous versions of Mathematica using initialization cells ...
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How to suppress undesirable kerning rules in math inline cells?
Update: (11/29/2012) Looks like Mathematica 9 has the same behavior.
The following graphic shows how Mathematica kerns italic characters in an inline math formula cell (first row) where an ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 ...
