Questions relating to working with textual information: textual analysis, data mining, etc.
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How to export results of an analysis in table format into MS word file
I'm working on a simulation study using Mathematica 8. At the end of the analysis I'll have a matrix of data containing my results (assume for three variables like x,y & z). I used these codes for ...
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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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rotating 3d text
Is it possible to create a 3d rotating text like this:
animation here.
Here is my try so far:
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Determine the Number of Lines in a Text File
I have looked and looked but I do not see a simple efficient way to get MMA to return the number of lines in a text file?
I thought about reading the file until it returned the EOF marker, but that ...
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Iterating Reads From a Text File and Writing the Results of Operation
I have a very large text (TSV) file. I am able to now read single line, thanks to StackExchange. I am able to read a part of that line using the part operator. I want to iterate through the whole ...
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diff-able text-only notebooks?
I would like to save my Mathematica notebooks as plain-text documents, so that I can keep them under git version control.
I thought that ...
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Label points in plot with a text
I'm a newbie at Mathematica and I couldn't find how to label the maximum and the zero of a simple function in Plot with their names:
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Haiku Extractor
Inspired by the cool Tumblr Haiku Times that searches for accidental haiku in New York Times articles, I tried my hand at implementing such a search in Mathematica for my own text samples.
I'm still ...
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Exporting large numbers to a text file [duplicate]
I need to export large numbers to an ASCII text file, but as simple digits without powers of ten, e.g. I need to write 123456.789 to the file and not 1.23456789E10^5. It seems like such a simple ...
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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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3D scatter plot from a txt file
I have a txt file with space-delimited x, y, z coordinates of several points. The points are organized into groups of unequal size; the groups are delimited by skipping a line, like this:
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How to write a function to remove comments from a .m source file preserving formatting such as line wrapping reasonably?
How to write a function to remove comments from a .m source file preserving formatting such as line wrapping reasonably?
This means if I have
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Where can I take a pool of words from?
Dear Community members,
I am thinking about an interactive machine to teach a school child to write difficult words correctly. As a first step I need a collection of words. I will select a pool of ...
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Poor anti-aliasing in Rotated text with ClearType on
There is a problem on my system that occurs when text is rotated 90 degrees as it is in frame labels. This only happens when ClearType is turned on, and only around 90 degrees of rotation.
I am ...
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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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What is the full list of all font families?
I'm having trouble finding a complete list of the FontFamily strings that mathematica supports.
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Spacer and Text in Graphics going Awry (in Mathematica 7)
Use of a vertical Spacer in justified text inside a graphic isn't working as required. The result in the green box looks right, but when this is placed in a ...
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Movable text on a curve
Having an arbitrary curve defined as InterpolatingFunction, what is the best way to place a text on this curve? The text generally has two rows, for example: ...
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Why is Mathematica treating my text as input?
I have typed in some text input by using Alt-7 to convert everything into text, but why is text still evaluated? Or is there better way to make comments other than (* text here *), because in my text ...
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How can I wrap text around a circle?
How can I wrap text around a circle?
For example: the text in the sectors of this chord plot.
Perhaps one could use FilledCurve[] and then apply a ...
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Importing formatted, highlighted text from : HTML vs RTF vs. XML
We would like the ability to import and analyze ASCII documents that have been manually segmented by highlighting and changing font colors of various sections, eg:
The original line breaks, ...
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How can I convert a formatted text cell to latex code?
I have a formatted text cell, I want to export it as latex. How can I do that?
Since copy as LaTeX doesn't work, I thought of pasting it into a string and exporting, but it's a no go:
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Unicode beyond Basic Multilingual Plane
String manipulation takes a dive when characters beyond \:FFFF are used e.g. Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. The characters display fine but doing string ...
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How to import all files of a folder at once?
I know how to import one textfile by calling its name
filestring = Import["myfile.tex", "Text"];
Then "filestring" is a string with the myfile content.
How do ...
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Comparing Unequal Lists of Surnames to Establish Over or Under-Representation
I've been using Mathematica to explore historical records. I have two long lists (one is 69k, the second 17k) of unequal length. They are like so (FWIW, the first list is the first 40 entries from the ...
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Rotated text in “plot” cannot be copied to MS Word
When I add some text to a simple plot with drawing tools, the text cannot be copied and pasted out with the graphic itself to Microsoft Word.
Do you know how to copy the manually added text out to ...
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How to Rasterize in “Printout” style
I am trying to ascertain how large a justified text block will be when printed by rasterizing it in the "Printout" style environment. However, ...
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Grabbing a number of characters around a string pattern
If I have some string data:
text = StringTake[ExampleData[{"Text", "DeclarationOfIndependence"}], 400]
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes ...
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Importing file with UCS-2 Little Endian codification
I'm trying to import a text file with UCS-2 Little Endian codification but I can't read it correctly. There's any hidden option to read this files ??
I'd tried with ...
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Word Squares and Beyond
A word square is a set of words which, when placed in a grid, read the same horizontally and vertically. For example, the following is an English word square of order 5:
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How can I italicize FrameLabel directives?
Suppose that I use Frame -> True in Plot. Then I can use ...
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Is there a way to outline text?
If I have:
Graphics[
{Red, EdgeForm[Directive[White, Thick]],
Inset[Style[Text@"Hi!", 44], {0, 0}]}, Background -> Black
]
I unfortunately get:
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Manipulating spacing in a text object
I want to visually illustrate substitution in a mathematical expression. This is an example:
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How to resize the text content of a grid with it?
I am in a resizing mood these days. This code works quite well, up to a point.
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Formatted text in a Dynamic or Manipulate control
I am using a Manipulate control to show different calculations for the same user-specified parameters. I would like to show the results for the calculation the ...
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Pasting “rectangles” of text side-by-side
In Emacs/Xemacs, there is a rectangle feature, such that you can delete, copy, etc., "rectangles" of text.
Now suppose I have two text files, each containing one column of numbers. Is it possible to ...
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Computing the bounding boxes for Text objects
Regardless of AspectRatio, the Text boxes overlap.
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How to dynamically name and date a file for export?
I have various functions that export Excel and text files, and need to have them named with a name based on the content of some variables in the function and the time and date. How can this be done ...
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Is it possible to type equations as text in Mathematica?
I was wondering if I could write an equation, symbolically, but only as part of a text in Mathematica. So I don't want Mathematica to consider anything inside that equation as a variable, nor equate ...
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Interpreting text entry and splitting it in a Manipulate text field?
I have the following program that plots the number of trigram appearances across a corpus of textual information between 1964 and 1989 (apologies for the messy code):
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How to determine the convex hull of some text?
How can I get the co-ordinates of the convex hull of a piece of Text?
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Issues with a Counter that is tallying term appearances
I am working with an array of textfiles, trying to see how frequent certain terms are. However, I am running into some difficulty with my running counts of bigram frequency. Here is a snippet of my ...
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subscripts in plot axis labels
Superscripts can be included in axis labels by the use of the caret symbol (e.g., Plot[x^2, {x, -1, 1}, AxesLabel -> {x, x^2}]).
How does one include subscripts ...
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Lexicographic ordering of strings in Mathematica
I recently realized that Mathematica seems incapable of comparing strings in the "normal" expected lexicographic order. Indeed, for some simulations, I need to process text directly, without fiddling ...
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Keeping Text Size the Same Throughout Entire Notebook File
Is there a way in which when you choose to format the size of the font within your notebook, for a particular cell, when you go into another cell, the default size font (12pt) will not be ...
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Importing .txt or .csv financial data
I am trying to import some financial data exported from Excel. You can find the relevant file here : Text File or CSV File
This is what the data looks like in Excel :
Using the following code to ...
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Dimensions of the results of Text[] within Graphics[]
Is there a way to get the dimensions that the results of a Text[] will occupy within a Graphics[]? Specifically, if I run ...
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