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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Extract outputs from a WHILE loop in a table format
How can I convert my multiple outputs of a while loop in a table form and save it for later use. Here is a sample code:
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What do indices in brackets mean? [closed]
Solving the Schrodinger equation for a free particle gives me this output:
What does the $\psi^{(2,0)}$ mean here?
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Tools that can convert mathematica images into tikz or pgf code to import to latex?
I have learned about Mathematica2latex from some websites, I don't know where to download it and how to use. Is there any other tools that can convert mathematica images into tikz or pgf code to ...
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Controlling the baseline position of a fraction numerator in a notebook style?
I'm using a built-in Notebook style "Equation" from the "Book/Textbook.nb" stylesheet. When entering fractions, the space between the bottom of the text in the numerator and the fraction line is too ...
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How do I import data formatted in C or Fortran into Wolfram Language?
I want to import some data that has been formatted using C language. I am not sure if there is a way to read in data by specifying column widths in WL. The data has been formatted using ...
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Two actions in the loop body
Help me please, how I can write two action in the body of the cycle "for"?
For example, if I need to write Print[] and Append[] at each iteration.
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TeXForm doesn't work in wolframscript?
Consider that
$ wolframscript -cloud -code 'TeXForm[ (d u)/(d t)]'
TeXForm[u/t]
yet
I don't have a local wolframscript kernel installed. Is this something ...
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TraditionalForm-like typesetting in Jupyter notebook
One of the nice thing about running Mathematica codes in the front-end,
is that one can attach custom typesetting rules to the user-defined symbols.
Then, setting the format type of new output cells ...
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How to rearrange the terms in polynomials to the power of x?
Here is my code
Eliminate[y == x + n && x^2/6 + y^2/3 == 1, y]
I got
6 - 3 x^2 == 2 n^2 + 4 n x
But I wanna it to be ...
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Typesetting environment for CloudDeploy
I am currently starting to develop a Web API for our schools mathematics placement examination for new students. We have the questions and we have what potential scores will mean for us. After ...
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Loading Latex packages into Mathematica
Is it possible to specify a latex package to load while pasting TeX expressions into Mathematica notebooks. For example I would like to load the braket package to typset something like \ket{\psi}
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How to display properly Dataset with index column?
I'm trying to construct and display properly DataSet. Everything works fine, except the index column('Year'). I'm trying different variants:
Example 1:
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Is there a way to get a tilde to span characters in the way an overbar does?
I want this to work for textual input. This screen-scrape shows what I want:
It's not all that uncommon in mathematical literature. Can it be accomplished in Mathematica V10?
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How do I add into a text cell a reference to a numbered function?
I have a document with lots of numbered equations in their own cells (which I numbered through Format->Style->DisplayFormulaNumbered). I also have lots of ...
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Programmatically get InputText of box structure without spaces
I am looking for a way to get something similar to the "Input Text" form of an arbitrary box structure, but without the extra whitespaces.
Before I explain the requirements in a bit more detail, let'...
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Typesetting a double Over Dot on top of a symbol
I wanted to make a notation with a double dot over a symbol in Mathematica. Searching online or in the documentation did not yield any results. However, just randomly attempting to give a second ...
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Custom PopupMenu displays menu items as values instead of labels
I'm trying to create custom appearance for PopupMenu with the below code. The problem I have is with the menu items which are displayed as values instead of labels. ...
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Cell formatting and hiding code
I've written some code that's been getting longer and longer, Is there a way to "hide" the section of the code that does not require input so that i can just give it my two inputs and jump straight to ...
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DisplayForm problem with $\pi$ in FractionBox
The following line produces an output with the text "Pi" displayed instead of the symbol (greek letter) $\pi$.
Code line:
FractionBox[π,2] // DisplayForm
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All the group formatting available in Mathematica
I was wondering how many pre-defined group formatting style there is in Mathematica. From Format -> Style, one see that we can go from ...
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Typing Control-6 makes text cell disappear
This morning, I opened a document I worked on last week, and all the lines of text that had Control-9 functions in them where the function involved a power written by typing Control-6 were completely ...
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Exporting Summary Boxes
I would like to Export a Summary Box in its expanded Form. How do i do this?
I can Export a collapsed Summary Box by doing:
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1answer
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Modify the `Head`of a function [closed]
I created a function HIntthat gives me a traditional output for integrates.
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How do I tell Mathematica to write numbers on a file without using scientific notation?
I need to write numbers out to a file without using the scientific notation. How do I tell Mathematica to do that?
This is the code I am using:
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What is a satisfactory way to typeset ℕ in the Mathematica notebook?
I am familiar with typing:
escintsesc
escrealsesc
to produce:
(when typing inside a DisplayFormula cell).
How would one typeset a similar looking ℕ ?
I have tried ...
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Construct a function with subindices
I'm constructing a function that gives me subindices in output.
The function is HAt.
For example:
HAt[u == u0, t -> 0]
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How can consistent scaling of ∧, ∨, etc., be accomplished?
I've added two examples of what the expressions I wish to reproduce look like:
Here ∧ serves both as a binary operator and as the universal quantifier. I know ...
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How do you change from Traditional form to Input form?
I have something like this:
Hold[TraditionalForm[1/2 + x^2]]
And wish to change it to Input form with the use of code (that is, without clicking Cell > Convert ...
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Typography of Mixed Tensor Index Notation
How can one properly and quickly write a mixed "tensor" such as $\Gamma{}_{1}{}^{2}{}_{3}$?
Shortcuts such as esc Gamma esc, Ctrl+^, Ctrl+_ are prefered. I intendd to use this in an inline equation ...
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Enter formula in matrix forms
Hello I am a new Mathematica user and I have to finish a school project using it. I have the following Matrix Form, I need to calculate the growth rate of the following data by year. The growth rate ...
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How to use InputForm for printed and output expressions in console mode
When I run Mathematica in console mode (math.exe/wolfram.exe) without a GUI frontend, then printed and output expressions are (...
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How to reduce margins of text in GraphicsRow?
I used the code GraphicsRow[{Text["1"], Graphics[Disk[]], Graphics[Disk[]]}] to generate a row of graphics, but one of them is actually some text. I found that <...
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How to do long space in Mathematica 11.3
In some previous versions of Mathematica under Windows 10 you could type \:2003 and a long space (Unicode em space character) appeared, e.g. inside a text cell.
This does not seem to work in version ...
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plot legend appearing in iteratively produced plot, missing colors
I'm trying to have the color of each line show up in the plot legend for the following block of code below, except the corresponding colors for each line of the plot do not show up in the legend. I ...
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Using Overdot in function Module?
Fundamental problem is: Is there any way I can use OverDot[var] as symbol in a function? I have tried to use Symbolize[OverDot[x,1]] for example, to no avail.
If I ...
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Mixed fraction input
How do I make mathematica treat $5\frac{1}{2}$ as a mixed fraction rather than 5 times one-half?
I'm using typesetting keyboard shortcuts (if that's important)
Currently I'm using $(5 + \frac{1}{2})$...
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Entering negative fractions in formula mode
I find it awkward to enter negative fractions in Mathematica when using formula mode.
For example I need to enter $ -\frac{1}{12}$ in a text cell.
I would press ⌘7 ...
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Create a cross-section, time series data set using Matrix operations
I have developed the following code, which produces what I aim to obtain.
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Replacements within a mathematica expression?
Say I have many expressions of the form $$\text{expr} = \frac{1}{AB(C+D)^n E^m}$$ where $A,B,C,D$ and $E$ are symbols and $n,m$ arbitrary powers. In order to convert between the mathematica output and ...
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Slide Show Presentation: Huge Margins [closed]
When I create a standard presentation and enter presentation mode, left margins are huge, like 25% of the screen. Is there a way to reduce it?
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Formatting an input cell
I want to create an input cell with two lines, like the following:
a="aaaaaaa";
b="bbbbbb"; c="ccccc";
That is as I want to have it. Now insert in the first ...
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Joining strings in FrameLabel [duplicate]
I want the $ x $-axis of this plot to be $ \tau/\alpha_e $ without the "+", but I'm unable to do this without Mathematica putting the $ \alpha_e $ to the front of the string.
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Unitalicizing a label with a sub/superscript
I need to use a sub/superscript to label the x-axis variable on the horizontal axis of my plot.
Mathematica returns the variable as italicized, but only the $x^2$ needs to be italicized, but not the ...
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How to draw lines touching x and y axes
I have a simple code to generate a plot
ListPlot[Table[4.5 (x - 5) + RandomReal[{-20, 20}], {x, 5, 100, 10}]]
I would like each point to have two red lines ...
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Replacement rule to display negative exponents as denominators
Suppose I have an expression of the form:
expr=f[t]^b + f[t]^a g[t]^-a + g[t]^-c
And I want to create a rule to convert negative exponents to denominators. In ...
