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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Do you know any (Have you any) CheatSheet (not neccessarily of Mathematica) created with Mathematica? [closed]
Any CheatSheet created with Mathematica?
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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 ...
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How to Create a Shortcut to put a frame around an equation
I use mathematica for typing Physics and other notes. For important equations, I prefer to put a box around them. To do so I use either:
Insert-> Typesetting -> Add Frame from the menubar
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Format of codes
For example, in .wl file, I typed a symbol like this,
However, When I reopen the file, it becomes like this.
How can I keep expression of the form of first picture in .wl file?
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Performance - Plot with Calloutmarker ->“Arrow” and ImageSize->Full
This is a little esoteric, but I noticed that using CalloutMarker -> "Arrow" on a Plot that uses ...
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Can you use boxes to create a primed variable?
I want to use a symbol to distinguish $\lambda$ in one coordinate set from another $\lambda$ in another set. Traditionally, we'd use a prime symbol ' to do this (e.g. $\lambda'$). I tried using this ...
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Equations in text cell in wrong format
In order to type an equation in a text cell one presses Ctrl+9 and then you get a highlighted region into which you type an equation. Here is an example
The problem here is that the equation is in ...
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How to format a Grid command
Creating some extra notes for students in a trig class. A bare bones table can be created in Mathematica using the line below.
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Wolfram Cloud's Sum give wrong position [closed]
Run this code in wolfram cloud.
Sum[((-1)^(i + 1)*Binomial[n, i]*(n - i)!)/n!, {i, 1, n}]
Click Output to get the code.
Gives
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How to increase font without affecting grid spacing?
Here's an example of the problem, say you have a Grid with particular spacings that looks like this:
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Use Format while still being able to copy-paste the underlying representation
Suppose that I have a Head A that appears pretty often in my code and, in order to make my outputs look nicer, I define
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How to get function to 'expand' while inactivating inner functions
This is sort of a two question problem:
Question 1
So I have a function as follows
f[x_] := x + 2;
I want a way to have a statement such as:
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Display Number with SI prefixes
I have a number of val = 0.000015783 which represents a current value in Amps.
I want to display it with 3 significant digits and with SI prefixes instead of the ...
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Help all my variables are black
Some time I ago I changed my format settings and somehow (I can't remember) everything in Mathematica is now black. I'd like my variables to be nicely coloured again. How do I undo this?
It looks like ...
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How to make boxes independent from those cell-formatting options?
In a cell whose LanguageCategory option is "Input", boxes will be syntax-highlighted. Is there any way to diasble such ...
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Export table of mixed data without shortened decimal notation?
My question is similar to this one, except the solution presented there does not work in my case since my table contains strings as well as numbers.
I would like to export data such as
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Custom object display in Dataset using MakeBoxes
The below code defines a couple "objects" in the Mathematica sense using a convention consisting of so-called Q-functions for creating types and data validation, ...
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Axis not appearing in the correct location ListPointPlot3D
So when you make a 3D plot in mathematica, Plot3D, ListPlot3D, ListPointPlot3D, etc. the side of the box the axis show up on usually happens automatically. That is, the orient themselves so they're ...
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What does Global Magnification actually do?
In preferences (at least in mathematica 12.0+), there is an option called "Global Magnification". At first glance, this option seems to scale the size of the text in notebooks (e.g. 75% ...
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Disallow line breaks in long Row
I'm displaying a long row of images with a horizontal scrollbar that should make the images 'go off the screen' to the left or right, instead of wrapping to display all the images on multiple lines.
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Expanding and sympifying an expression when using typesetting format
I'm starting to learn Mathematica, and in the book that I'm reading the author presented the commands Simplify and Expand. Now, ...
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HowTo “correctly” avoid clipping in GraphicsRow[{Labeled[Graphics[]]}]? Both images and labels
Version:"12.0.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (April 6, 2019)"
This code
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How do I write small “black board” c1, c2, … constants?
New for Mathematica 12(?) seems to be a formatted "black board" style of the former C[1], C[2], ... constants in Mathematica 11. How do I type these with formatting at input? C[1] etc. still ...
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Using Experimental`OptimizeExpression for expression optimization
I am trying to optimize the following expression (example only)
expr = Normal[Series[(1 - y - 2 z)^-2, {z, 0, 3}]]
whose output becomes
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How to enter a nuclear reaction?
Sometimes the simplest things are the most difficult, I need to make a presentation, and I thought to do it in Mathematica, I wanted to do a demonstration too, well...this is the Rutherford's equation
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Mathematica front-end code alignment issue
I am having a frustrating recurring issue with the frontend (Mathematica 12.1.1 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (June 19, 2020)).
I will have a notebook which works just fine, all lines evaluate. Next, I ...
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How to copy Mathematica code with subindices in a readable way?
I'm trying to post some Mathematica code that makes heavy use of indices on a blog, and when copying and pasting I end up with unreadable stuff like
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Pie chart plot formatting
I have been looking through numerous stack posts to answer 1-4 below.
I am trying to generate a pie chart with several very small slices that have long labels.
when I do the callouts how can I ...
