Specify and control how Mathematica formats its output, including rich text, equations and graphics.
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Way to improve “show me this decimal number to M places, don't use scientific notation”?
The best way I can come up with to say "show me this fraction as a decimal number to M places, don't use scientific notation" is:
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2answers
463 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 ...
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292 views
How to put terms in lexicographic order?
Is it possible to have terms like f[w-c] be formatted like this and not like f[-c + w]. I use Mathematica (7.0) for simplifying ...
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Display Log with desired notation in output
I wish to display logarithms with different bases in the single-term rather than numerator/denominator form during output:
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How can I turn off SingleLetterItalics in PlotLabels, etc, when the Options Inspector won't do it?
One of the requirements set for the graphing project I am working on is that plot and axis unit labels sometimes need to include superscripts. Here is an approximately minimal example (I have some ...
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Remove tick labels, but retain tick marks in RegionPlot (and related functions)
I would like to remove the numbering on the axes of the following RegionPlot. I would like to keep the tick marks but drop the numbering, I haven't figured out how ...
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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 ...
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Wrapping EventHandler by Table
I am making a grid on the screen. The grid is composed of different expressions. I want all of them to have a Gray background, which turns into a ...
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TeX and TraditionalForm
I have a little problem, and hope, with your help, I'll be able to solve it.
As you got from the title, I have some trouble with TeX in Mathematica. Imagine, I want to output a nice DisplayFormula, ...
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About the number format in ticks
I want to LogPlot a function, but I have the trouble in the number format in the ticks.
For example,
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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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Can the Notation function support complex structures on its left hand side?
In my investigation of the possibilities offered by the Notation package, I came over a limitation in the complexity of the left hand side symbol. For instance, although I am able to enter
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How to output an expression to an external file in “plain text” format without breaking lines?
Given a pretty long expression, such as
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430 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
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Constructing a list that includes a leading zero (01,02,03 … 55, 56, etc.)
I am constructing a list for use in file operations. Say I want to create list which contains values from 01 to 87. The kicker is that the first nine integers need ...
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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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Inconsistent display of TraditionalForm in version 9
After installing version 9, the default style sheet uses Arial font in text and formula cells. So far, so bad. At least one would hope this is done consistently.
But now I see this:
You can see ...
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Formatting Ticks and FrameTicks labels with a function
Is there a convenient way to format tick labels? In this example I would like to use the default Mathematica tick intervals, but simply convert the X axis labels to strings with "s" added.
As you ...
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Embed CDF into an Apple iBook?
Edit
From the comments I received and verifying the information about CDF at wolfram.com, it appears that it is presently impossible to embed CDF into iBooks.
WRI does not appear to be happy with this ...
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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?
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Formatting a fraction as a mixed number
Is there a command that will take a rational number and rewrite it in a mixed-number-like form? That is, I'd like to apply a command to something like 10/7 and get ...
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How can I add row and column header images to my TableForm output?
I am experimenting with the Eigenfaces algorithm and have my notes and experimental data collected in a Mathematica notebook. The result of an experimental run is a table of scores, where the smallest ...
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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,
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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 ...
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Bold face formatting for vectors instead of overarrows like latex \mathbf{}?
OverVector can be used to make a symbol look like a vector in text sections of documents. I happen to like bold symbols for vectors better, as in latex ...
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How can I make CurrentValue for font characteristics pick up the font of the output not the input cell?
The command CurrentValue (documentation) allows you to access various properties of fonts, such as x-height, line height, and various measures of width such as ...
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Simplify function notation
I have some calculations with arbitrary functions. In the output, Mathematica always shows the functions with its arguments. I would like to tidy the notation a bit, by hiding the arguments in the ...
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1answer
439 views
Reduce an equation by putting a new variable
I have the following equation given:
$$ (26-x)\cdot\sqrt{5x-1} -(13x+14)\cdot\sqrt{5-2x} + 12\sqrt{(5x-1)\cdot(5-2x) }= 18x+32. $$
In order to solve it, I want to substitute $t = \sqrt{5x - ...
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How do I set the font for output in my stylesheet?
I'd like to change the font that Mathematica uses for output by setting the font of the corresponding style in my stylesheet; bit simply overriding the default ...
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How do I introduce a new variable in a trigonometric equation?
I have the trigonometric equation
\begin{equation*}
\sin^8 x + 2\cos^8 x -\dfrac{1}{2}\cos^2 2x + 4\sin^2 x= 0.
\end{equation*}
By putting $t = \cos 2x$, I have
\begin{equation*}
\dfrac{3}{16} t^4+ ...
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How to keep Collect[] result in order?
For example,
Collect[(1 + x + Cos[s] x^2)^3, x]
gives the result
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How to format numbers with at least one figure after the decimal point
I'm searching for a way to get Reals formatted with at least one figure after the decimal point. So e.g. 3. should be printed as 3.0 and ...
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1answer
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How to change brackets in TraditionalForm output
I'm trying to improve TraditionalForm's output by using different brackets when there are more than one. For instance, instead of $u(v(r(b))))$, I'd like to get ...
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TableAlignments->Left not working
For a very simple dataset TableAlignments->Left does not work:
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Printing a string in a Mathematica script
Here's a simple script saved in the file hello
#!/usr/local/bin/MathematicaScript -script
Print["Hello world"]
I can then run ...
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Multi-column table layout the right way
How do I create book-like multi-column table formatting for a long, narrow tables in a preferably elegant way? Should I be thinking of stylesheets, instead of formatting? I guess this is a solved ...
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Expressing a decimal as a fraction in lowest terms
How can I express a decimal such as 0.1845095405274387 as a fraction in its lowest terms?
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1answer
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CellEvaluationFunction or $PreRead stripping inline cells from text cells
I want to create a textual style that has some CellEvaluationFunction that processes the contents of the cell a certain way. Particularly, it has to do something ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Converting a large floating-point number to a single-line string
When I feed a large (or small) enough floating-point number to ToString, it produces a two-line string, with the first line containing only the exponent of 10:
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Vertical alignment of FrameTicks Text
The text box of a FrameTick/Tick is, by default, vertically centered on the tick mark.
Is there a way to adjust the vertical alignment of FrameTick text? Specifically, along the lines of Baseline, ...
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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:
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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 ...
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How to make rational expressions formatted using FractionBox
This is what I get using Mathematica 9.0.1.
Instead I want this:
I know how to use MakeBoxes, Format and I thought this code would work:
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2answers
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How to eliminate the zero real part of a purely imaginary number?
In Mathematica 9, a purely imaginary number, e.g. 0.9 I, will display as 0. + 0.9i in the output form. How can I eliminate the ...
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How to write output to an external text file in addition to the standard output stream?
How to write output to an external text file in addition to the standard output stream, i.e. a notebook for a session with FE and stdout for command-line session?
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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 ...
