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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Mathematica can not interpret parentheses correctly [closed]
I want to sum up four terms but Mathematica does not interpret the parentheses correctly. In the picture, in second line there is only one term that starts with 1/12...
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How can I preserve parentheses enclosing a dot product in a HoldForm[]?
I am having a problem with keeping the parentheses enclosing a dot product in HoldForm[]. I want to keep them in my equations since they indicate important grouping ...
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How can I remove the outermost pair of brackets enclosing a Piecewise function when it occurs in an equation?
Recently I have been annoyed by an automatic formatting in MMA, that is when a Piecewise function occurs in an equation, it will be enclosed by a pair of brackets automatically by MMA, although when ...
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Pressing Command+b (for boldface) seem to work intermittently in inline cells
As expected, pressing Command+b will usually change the font-weight of the currently selected (highlighted) text to bold. However, I'm noticing that this often fails in inline cells. For example, ...
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How to copy Mathematica code into Microsoft Word?
Is there a way to copy my mathematica code (with preserved formatting) as text into microsoft word? Below is part of my code.
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Mathematica is messing around with absolute values and sqrts of complex numbers?
I know that $$\begin{pmatrix}0&Z\\Z^*&0\end{pmatrix} \quad\text{has eigenvalues}\quad \lambda_\pm=\pm|Z|$$
but Mathematica gives me
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A bug in copy&paste of plain text
My mathematica version is 12.2 and OS is windows 10.
In a new .nb document
Write a string "abc" in the first cell
Right mouse click on the first cell bracket
click copy as - plain text
ctrl+...
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Change style of the above cell
How can I change the style of a given cell,
by writing some code on the cell directly below the cell and executing it?
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Text cell numbering
For input cells and output cells, there are automatic,natural numbering.
In[1] 2+2
Out[1] 4
I mean In[1] and Out...
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Formatting the output of Abs[x] to look like $|x|$
I have a program where I deal with multiple complex variables and it is convenient to ouput all absolute values and complex conjugates as $|x|$ and $x^*$. To achieve this, I've added these lines to my ...
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How to type special characters used in $\LaTeX$?
While using $\LaTeX$, there are two characters, \Re and \Im, that represent the real and imaginary parts of a complex number. These look like this:
How can I type these two characters in Mathematica?
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Computing maximal FontSize to fill a rectangle?
I'd like to compute the proper FontSize for a given piece of text to fill a given Rectangle.
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Bug with ScientificForm[] and Around[]?
I'm using Mathematica 12.3.
You can use ScientificForm[] to display a number using scientific notation irregardless of its magnitude. When using ...
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How to declare at the beginning of the notebook that a variable belongs to a set?
In the notebook I am working on I have certain symbolic variables (e.g., c and r) which I would like to declare since the very first few lines to be non negative real numbers. Correct me if I am wrong ...
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Mathematica typesetting (writing in Text cells) PROBLEMS - unpredictable behaviour!
I've been using Mathematica for years. Even the latest v.13 is still giving really weird behaviour when writing in a Text cell, and completely unexpectedly:
Changes unexpectedly the text style, text ...
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Is it possible to change $SystemCharacterEncoding?
In my machine I get
Now let's check the official CP949 map.
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP949.TXT
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The code point of ♥ in CP949 is 2665.
(The code ...
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Dollars with Superscript Cents in text
I would like to show the cents of the dollar amount as superscripts inside text.
I can define a function for making the cents into a superscript, but when I add the result in text, the text gets ...
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How can I copy the cell as LaTeX code but the look remains as what I typed?
I typed this on Mathematica.
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DecimalForm export problem
When I'm trying to export data formatted using DecimalForm I have "DecimalForm[0.002, 4], DecimalForm[0.0004567, 4]" in the exported file for the following example
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How do I show a list of variables and their associated values as a list or table?
I would like to do calculations using various variables as inputs along with functions or formulas and once all variables are calculated I need to output some or all of them in a table (or list).
Here ...
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How to write the expression of norm in Mathematica
Please how I can write the following expression of Latex in Mathematica
$\parallel F \parallel_{L^2 (\omega)} $
Thank you in advance.
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How to type following expression in Mathematica
I want to eneter following expression in mathematica
$$\prod_a^3 \prod_{b\neq a}^3 \frac{x(a)}{b-a}$$
How is this extra condition in product entered in Mathematica?
Without the restriction, I would ...
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Make very long equals sign
My goto in LaTeX is
\stackrel{\text{by obviousness}}{=\joinrel=\joinrel=\joinrel=\joinrel=\joinrel=\joinrel=\joinrel=}
where I stick together enough equals signs ...
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How can the format of Initialization Cells be set to the format of normal input cells?
I don't like how initialization (or "Code") cells are formatted in notebooks, namely the grey background color and the spacing/wrapping settings. I want ...
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How to scale the parenthesis like how the LaTeX \left \right commands do?
I am trying to use Graphics[Text[]] to label some curves on a plot. However, I cannot format the text properly.
I want my text to look like this
$$F= \left(\dfrac{2\...
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How to write LaTeX style math in notebook (as text)
If I have a notebook and I am just typing out ideas, I would like to be able to write math just as TeX style formatting for display and not as input to Mathematica.
I have found that I can use CTRL-4 ...
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Extracting Format of Tutorial Notebook
I noticed that the documentation contains some beautifully formatted notebooks which I would like to use for my file. However, simply copying the cells does not work. So how can I get the formats of ...
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How can I make ToString keep significant numbers with zeros?
I would like the output of ToString to keep the zeros as in the input, how can I do that?
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Make InvisibleComma's in output
Entering something that outputs like $a_{bc}$ is as simple as actrl-_besc,escbesc,escc, using \[InvisibleComma]s.
The form of the expression is actually ...
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Align paragraph text to left (not just first line)
The following looks wrong to me, how can I fix the alignment for the whole paragraph?
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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
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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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