Questions tagged [formatting]
Questions on typesetting and making your expressions, matrices, operators, equations or formulae look how you want them to.
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How to recover these TemplateBox into normal form?
I often use $\TeX$ editor by Insert→Inline TeX Input in PlotLabel to label graphics:
I will get a well-formed plot label:
But when I Copy As Input Text and paste ...
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Force union "∪" to typeset big
I'm asking about typing math in an inline text cell. So in a text cell, ctrl-9 puts the cursor in an inline cell.
Then escunesc1ctrl-_2 produces
so evidently that subscript isn't "low enough&...
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Modify typesetting of ↪ with MMA equivalent of \raisebox
I was going to ask about the MMA equivalent of $\TeX$'s \raisebox, since the character ↪ is way too high up in inline cells:
vs from TeX
Then I found it: ...
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Writing a technical note in Mathematica
I have been using Mathematica for many years, mostly for plotting, derivations and numerical computations. Many times I tried to incorporate some text and formulas in my worksheets. Text is Ok, but ...
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Remove the Times x from display in Inactivate expressions in V13
I tried the solutions given in How do I remove the little × that shows up in the frontend when typing? and Getting rid of the horrible Times x in Mathematica 12.3.
They work for standard expressions: ...
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Output function definition as TeXForm with big bracket
I've checked this answer. While it works in Mathematica, the $\LaTeX$ output is weird.
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Why is Mathematica changing the output display format?
I do a command like
Table[i^5/(i^5 + 7*i + 1) Sin[x]/E^(3 i x), {i, 1, 5}]
The output shows up as
$$\left\{\frac{1}{9} e^{-3 x} \sin (x),\frac{32}{47} e^{-6 x} \...
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A question about generating table [closed]
Consider a vector that is generated somehow, say
vec:={RandomReal[{0,2}],RandomReal[{0,1}],RandomReal[{2,3}]};
Note that it is evaluated on-flight, I cannot ...
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How do I make a symbol for a second derivative?
In my script, I want the second derivative of a function to be a symbol that I can manipulate (i.e. give a value to, use in an expression, etc.). So I want to build a box for the expression:$$\frac{d^...
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How to map a keyboard combination of two keys pressed in sequence with modifiers to a palette?
I am aware of the question How to add a keyboard shortcut to open a Palette.
I would like to modify the example there to open the special character palette when I press Ctrl+Shift+S,C. How would I ...
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Why does Format produce this warning as a side-effect?
I'm trying to
Format[event[][digit[n_], pos[j_]]] ^:= Column[{n, Row[{"[", j, "]"}]}, Alignment -> Center]
which seems to work; evaluating <...
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Control size of extensible parentheses and bracket
Consider \!\(\*SuperscriptBox[f,0]\)((a,b]). I would want that typeset something like
$$f^0((a,b])$$
or maybe
$$f^0\Big((a,b]\Big)$$
Instead it formats like
$$f^0((...
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Creating a style that center aligns columns but tweeks terms that are negative
I have created the following style in a private stylesheet that applies to gridbox structures for matrices. So far I have
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Palette to control alignment in formula cells
I would like to create a palette with three buttons:
Inserts an alignment marker at the current cursor insertion point (i.e., inserts the character ...
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How to automatically name a Wolfram Notebook after the first title line of code if present?
I have a goal of somehow using Wolfram Mathematica's Notebook object functionality to program an initialization cell that will automatically save and name a new file after a title line of code ...
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How to format notebook like ACL Papers?
I typically use the ICML or ACL paper format in latex which is two-columns (shown below). Is there anyway to get a two column stylesheet that looks similar?
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Is there a way to reduce the vertical white space between input and output in a notebook cell?
Is there a way to control the vertical spacing between input and output cells? If CellMargins is supposed to do it, then what am I doing wrong?
In[8]:= CellMargins -> {{1, 1}, {1, 1}};
a = 7
Out[9]...
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How to format linear equation solve
I need to solve the system of linear equations $S_i = \sum_ {r =
1}^\lambda x_ {r, i} E_r$,
where $S_i$ is a $\lambda$ - dimensional vector, $i$ runs from 1 to $n$, $r$ runs from 1 to $\lambda$,...
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Getting rid of the horrible Times x in Mathematica 12.3
Revised question to reflect new issues pertinent to Mma 12.3 and that are unresolved by the linked question - this is NOT a DUPLICATE and should not be reflected as such
As of Mathematica 12.3, if I ...
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How can I change the way Mathematica orders exponents?
How can I change the ascending order that Mathematica has of ordering the exponents, to a descending one.
For example, get
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Creating a table from a for loop output [closed]
I have created a For loop that solves f(x)=0 using the Bisection method:
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How can I get matrices and text to show up in the same table with MatrixForm?
I'd like to be able to display matrices in the usual written MatrixForm in a table alongside text (or anything that isn't a matrix). Here is an example:
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Different Latex is generated when changing a number from 2 to 1. Using HoldForm
This is the most bizzar thing I saw with Mathematica TeXForm. Could someone please explain why it happens and if there is a workaround?
First, will show screen shot. I have an expression, when I have ...
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view linebreak symbol
As you see in the above example, In[294] and In[295] looks just the same, but the outputs are different.
The fact is that there is no linebreak symbol in In[294], but there is one linebreak symbol in ...
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Writing axis into scientific notation
I want to express numbers on the y-axis using scientific notation for the plot given below.
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How to set small tabs (right) instead of the tall tabs (left) in the menus?
How to set the Mathematica menu tabs with small heigth?
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Seeking help with converting output to formatted text for inclusion in a report
Hello and please forgive the beginners question. I am using Solve on a system of equations where results are presented in a format like the following (data is arbitrary in this example, however all ...
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Is there an easy way to copy a TableForm column and convert it into a vector?
Is there an easy way to take a column output from a TableForm command, like this:
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hiding input cells in presentations [duplicate]
I notice that presentations have the input cells (the ones with code) often hidden. Specifically in slide shows. This seems like a pretty basic question, but I can't seem to find out how to do this. ...
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Removing function arguments from expressions with derivatives
( This question is basically the opposite of this one: Variable dependency...easy one )
I would like to be able to output expressions in Mathematica that look more like pen-and-paper math. In ...
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Partially activate a derivative
Is there a way to make an inactive derivative do some amount of simplification? For instance, say I have
Inactive[D][{{f,g},{u,v}},x]
I would like ...
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How can I let RegularExpression remove all colors from its regex-input string before processing it?
Regular expressions are a very powerful tool, but such expressions are often very cryptic. If you want to understand them, it is best to have colored pencils at hand to color-code the parts that ...
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Automatically export .nb to a package upon saving while preserving section headings
Is it possible to automatically export a .m package when I save my .nb as can be done using the option ...
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How to represent a subgraph of a directed graph as a LayeredGraph with EdgeWeights
The following code generates:
The first element is a layered graph of the original system sam. The second element is a list of ...
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How to set a background color for a cell style via a command?
I want to set different background colors for various cell styles (e.g. Section, Text), so that whenever I choose a specific style for some cell in the notebook, it automatically gets colored ...
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Highlight text given String and String-Pattern
given a String:
string = "the cat is on the mat"
and given a String-Pattern
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How do I create a vertical RadioButtonBar in FormObject?
RadioButtonBar has an option Appearance->"Vertical". But I am using RadioButtonBar in a FormObject(basically to create multiple-choice questions), and ...
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Doing calculations on values input in USD currency format (e.g., $1,234.56)
I'd like to be able to copy and paste, into MMA, numbers that have a standard USD currency format, i.e., that include dollar signs and comma separators, and get the output in the same format. I'd ...
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Yet Another Expression Ordering Question (not polynomial but transcendental)
Forcing a particular ordering of terms, i.e. overriding Mathematica's, is a recurrent issue, especially for users working within particular domains where there is a particular ordering tradition or ...
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Organising and examining a complicated CSV file
I am being sent data in CSV files. The sender is providing helpful comments and lots of headings so that it is fine to look at in a spreadsheet environment. However, when I import it into Mathematica ...
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On the precision of `Table` calculation [duplicate]
I want to add two arrays length and Apice, It's accuracy to six decimal places. When I use ...
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How to use Power with NumberForm?
Being in need of calculating the following numbers with 18 decimals of precision: $2^{2^{-x}}, x\in{\mathbb{N}}$.
I looked for what built-in symbols can help me and found Power and NumberForm. I tried ...
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List of all formatting elements available for .m files
I'm looking into generating .m files programmatically and would like to explore
different possibilities of formatting their content when opened in the front end.
For example, if you write
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Pasting multiline commands
If i copy and paste something from one nb to another it works normally.
But if I copy from any other app it just puts everything in the same line.
Recently, I have automated my workflow in ...
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Palette to align formulas in input cell
I have a palette that formats input cells for display, and also copies the number of cells in DisplayFormulaNumbered format so I can paste references to them in the ...
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What would you substitute for { and } in Mathematica code so it will display in YouTube comments?
Curly braces are not allowed in YouTube comments, so it would be good to find another character that Mathematica doesn't use and YouTube will allow so a global find and replace will put back the ...
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UnitSimplify for unit multiples and submultiples
Is there any way to automatically rewrite units so that they display more naturally looking magnitudes? By this I mean that
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Formatting code in .wl and .m files from the command-line?
I use an external editor (Sublime Text) to edit my .wl and .m files and run them with WolframKernel from the command line. This means everything I do is outside of Mathematica. Is there a way I can ...
