Specify and control how Mathematica formats its output, including rich text, equations and graphics.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

9
votes
1answer
116 views

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, ...
18
votes
7answers
552 views

How do I get my equation to have the form $(x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2 + (z-c)^2-d = 0$?

I want Mathematica to express the equation $$-11 - 2 x + x^2 - 4 y + y^2 - 6 z + z^2=0$$ in the form $$(x - 1)^2 + (y - 2)^2 + (z - 3)^2 - 25=0$$ How do I tell Mathematica to do that?
6
votes
1answer
88 views

Telling mathematica to output * instead of space for multiplication, so I can copy as plain text

I am trying to get some symbolic expressions in Mathematica which I would like to paste into my C/MATLAB codes. This can be accomplished nicely by selecting the expression and right-clicking to ...
3
votes
4answers
91 views

Filling and Shading an Harmonic Curve

Suppose I have an equation plotted as shown: ...
25
votes
3answers
489 views

How to “Copy as Unicode” from a Notebook?

I spent some time manually editing a post replacing Mathematica ASCII \[Alpha] with Unicode α. I did this by laboriously ...
3
votes
1answer
29 views

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 ...
3
votes
2answers
111 views

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 ...
11
votes
2answers
221 views

Notebook formatting - easier descriptions for equations and results?

When I do computations in mathematica, I generally try to make it readable for myself-in-the-future. This can be a cumbersome task in mathematica, where it often requires me to switch betwee a text ...
-2
votes
1answer
74 views

Mathematica output in ASCII or larger text size for the output?

I am trying to read the output of this code that has crosses, circles and spaces. For some reason, the output is in very-very small alphabets so I would like to get it in ASCII and/or in larger ...
7
votes
3answers
134 views

Making large tables easy to read with frozen headings and scrollbars [duplicate]

I would like to represent a table containing a large amount of information in such a way that I can (a) use scrollbars and (b) have table headings that don't scroll off the screen [just like the Free ...
1
vote
2answers
195 views

I get weird <<…>> symbols in my output — what does it mean?

After I input the following: data = Table[{3 + i + RandomReal[{-3, 7}], i + RandomReal[{-2, 5}]}, {i, 1, 20}]; model = LinearModelFit[data, x, x] I got ...
4
votes
1answer
181 views

How do I get a two-term polynomial with a leading negative sign to display in the correct (i.e. textbook) order?

The first three expressions evaluate as expected and the polynomial is displayed in what I would call "textbook" form. The last expression, however, switches the order of terms. Mathematica employs ...
1
vote
3answers
82 views

iterate method to find roots

This code gives the roots (lambda-values) of eq1 by using iteration. ...
4
votes
1answer
80 views

How do I get Mathematica to show a number in non-exponential form? [duplicate]

Sometimes I make a calculation in Mathematica that produces a big number, which Mathematica shows like so: -1.52522*10^7 This is annoying to me, because I want ...
-1
votes
1answer
46 views

How can a 3DBarChart be made to be fixed size and proportions?

I have a 3DBarChart that adds bar graphs as would be required by the dataset, but as it gets wider runs off the page and can not be printed. Is there a way to fix the height & width of the ...
1
vote
0answers
71 views

TableForm behavior change

In an older version NoteBook, I was able to specify some options for TableForm, which enabled the printing of an expression in a simple fashion: ...
-3
votes
1answer
92 views

How can I solve precision problem [duplicate]

I want to set 2 decimal places, whether it's real Number or anything.for that purpose I wrote the following function. ...
0
votes
1answer
36 views

How to delete duplicate solutions of this system of equations?

I want to find vertices (has integer coordinates) of the triangle $ABC$ with the centorid is $G(1,1)$ and orthocenter is $H(3,3)$. I tried ...
1
vote
2answers
128 views

How to make traditional output for derivatives

Hello again after some pause. i have a problem how to present partial derivatives in traditional form, not as Mathematica gave it to me in its notation. So I want to present this ...
2
votes
4answers
244 views

How can I format a table to look nice?

I have this code, but i would like to see the results well formated, How can I obtain a well formatted data with aligment?, similar to this one insted what i obatin, you can see here Here is ...
5
votes
1answer
98 views

How can I fix Mathematica's text line-breaking algorithm not to line-break so soon?

I have some custom plotting functions that simplify the placement of footnotes and source notes under the plot. It is important that the line length of the footnotes fills up the available space and ...
3
votes
1answer
39 views

PaddedForm adds an additional padding character

I would like to get a sequence from "01" to "10". I tried ...
3
votes
1answer
122 views

How can I efficiently write formatted data to a Gaussian Cube file?

I am working with data files that contain information about electronic wave functions. The data format is specified by the quantum chemistry program Gaussian. I need to import the data, manipulate ...
5
votes
1answer
76 views

How to apply tags to expression terms?

I often see on this site and at the mathgroup the repeated questions on how to rearrange expression that Mathematica "likes" to keep in one form, but the user prefers in another. Consider this trivial ...
7
votes
3answers
118 views

Wrapper for inexact numeric complex numbers that maintains polar form

Related question: How can I convert a complex number a+b I to the exponent form A Exp(I phi)? Mathematica insists on displaying complex number in form a+I b when ...
11
votes
1answer
291 views

Rearranging a Polynomial

In Mathematica 8.04 on Windows, I want to display a formula in standard textbook format. The formula is the variance of an $N$-security portfolio. For two securities it is: ...
11
votes
2answers
399 views

Why doesn't PlotMarker option None return no PlotMarkers?

After reading the PlotMarkers documentation it seems to be all or nothing. For example if you wanted markers on some of you lines the code below seems ...
1
vote
2answers
76 views

Output format in MatrixForm

I have a correlation matrix, which I want to display in the following format: 2 decimal places (e.g., -0.56) number signs "+" and "-" (e.g., +0.76 or -0.34) I've tried many different things, but I ...
0
votes
0answers
109 views

How to find the couple $a$ and $b$ of the equation? [closed]

I want to find the integers numbers $a$, $b$, $k$ of the equation Sqrt[2 x + a] + Sqrt[b - 2 x] == k so that the given equation has two reals solution. I ...
2
votes
1answer
437 views

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 ...
2
votes
0answers
103 views

Negative power instead of fraction

Solve returns a solution in the form {{x->y/a^2 + y^2/a^7}}. Since I want to process the input (with another program) in terms of Laurent polynomials, I would ...
5
votes
2answers
418 views
3
votes
1answer
61 views

How do I edit the background of Axis labels in my plot?

I'm using the standard report stylesheet in Mathematica and when I output a plot, I've set it up so that I get a white background, however the axis labels still have a gray background. How do I change ...
1
vote
1answer
52 views

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 ...
1
vote
3answers
123 views

Write a table to a file

I want to compute a multidimensional table in Mathematica and write it to an external file. Here is a simple example. I have three lists x, ...
0
votes
0answers
118 views

Export to pdf from Mathematica using Greek characters

When I try to export Greek characters from Mathematica to a pdf file, the pdf is filled with unknown characters. Please note that i have no idea about Mathematica, I have just installed it today.I am ...
4
votes
3answers
154 views

Replace very small numbers by zero in the output of a list

I have a long nested list, but many elements are numbers of order 10^-18 or less, eg ...
1
vote
2answers
129 views

Help on output formatting

Again, I am writing homework sheets. I have tried ...
6
votes
2answers
249 views

How to change an expression to Fortran90 form?

I have a large expression produced by Mathematica. To use this expression in my Fortran program I need to change it to a Fortran90 form. I am not satisfied with the ...
-1
votes
1answer
66 views

Dynamically show a specific number of the fractional part's digits

What is the fastest way to cut off all n z digits of the fractional part of a real number? (For example 12390.20934230) I came up with this so far: ...
1
vote
1answer
79 views

output format including complex numbers [closed]

I have the following output. How can I convert this unnecessarily long expression into a single result (like z=u+iv) ? $\frac{(\text{} (0.0000540641 +0. i)-(0.0000422121 -0.0000372664 i)) ...
0
votes
1answer
53 views

Formatting Equation Output Neatly

I looked around and couldn't find the answer to this anywhere, so I'm sorry if this is a bad question - I'm pretty new to mathematica. I wrote a program to help me compute some annoying series ...
8
votes
2answers
207 views

Soft-Match String Comparison

I have a list of names in which I would like to check for duplicates. However, within the list, the duplicates may not show up as exact duplicates of each other - for instance, ...
6
votes
4answers
179 views

How do I display an expression with negative powers?

How do I display an expression with negative powers? Mathematica seems to always invert a term with a negative rational power. None of the following work: ...
-4
votes
2answers
77 views
4
votes
1answer
102 views

Why this code is considerably slower in version 9?

I have a Mathematica code for computing and plotting the density which corresponds to a given potential. The following code was written few years ago using version ...
2
votes
1answer
58 views

How to change the output format of a built-in function

Is it possible to change the output of build-in functions? I would like to change the output for IdentityMatrix[n] to "I", so I tried ...
4
votes
1answer
77 views

How to substitute $x$ in a expression $f(x)$ but not calculate the value of the $f(x)$ at the point $x$?

I want to subtitute $x = 1$ into the expression $$f(x)=x^2 + 3 (x^2 - m^2) + \sqrt{x^2 + 1}$$ but I don't calculate the value $f(1)$, that is mean, I want $$1^2 + 3(1^2-m^2)+\sqrt{1^2 + 1}.$$ If I ...
2
votes
4answers
447 views

How to export data files using specific format

Very often, I have to export data files from Mathematica. These output files contain several columns and hundreds of lines with data. For the sake of the question let's create a sample list ...
-5
votes
1answer
130 views

Mystified by inability to find info to do what seems really basic [closed]

Trying to do some basic algebra here, have input 12 expressions. I would like to label the output so that I can connect the outputs to the context of the inputs, within the output line. Having ...

1 2 3 4