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What are "\<" and "\>" delimiters in box expressions?
This syntax was deprecated in the version 6.0 era. According to the legacy documentation,
For example, in version 5.2, the following strings are interpreted differently
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How to make version 12 print Root objects to screen normally as in earlier versions?
Making the comments into an an answer as suggested.
SetSystemOptions[ "TypesetOptions" -> "NumericalApproximationForms" -> False]
will restore the legacy ...
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What is a printer's point?
There are three kinds of units for measuring on-screen length, i.e. pixels, points and physical units (like inches/centimeters/etc.). For me the confusing part is pixels vs. the so-called "points". ...
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How can I get rid of a persistent tooltip?
Preface: This issue seems to appear solely on Linux.
For me, a reliable way to reproduce it is to do the following: Create this plot wich contains an invalid Epilog
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How to make datasets display correctly?
The reason for the difference between ugly and nice is in the (hidden) data type that Dataset...
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What are "\<" and "\>" delimiters in box expressions?
Thanks to andre's comment (where this link is provided), I now see the effect of those delimiters (I tested it in Mathematica 11 and also some earlier versions). When I add 2 newlines to the box ...
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Reflection colors are lost on high resolution MeshRegion
I think that the option PlotTheme for large MeshRegions is automatically set to "LargeMesh" ...
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What are "\<" and "\>" delimiters in box expressions?
Summary of the all available information
In the hoarier days space-like characters (spaces, newlines, tabs) inside strings were interpreted on input in an odd way: for example single newlines ...
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Grid Centring around Divider
Update 2: A function that takes a list of cell indices and a Grid object to interactively adjust the alignments and paste the input form of the selected ...
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Any way to make my equations look better, more Latex like?
You can use MaTeX to get $\LaTeX$ formatting directly:
MaTeX["\\frac{1}{N}{\\sum _{i=1}^N \\frac{\\tilde{x}_j^i(k|k)}{\\sqrt{P_{\\text{jj}} (k|k)}}}"]
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How to make the determinant formula visible even in cases when det=0
One possibility is to temporarily inactivate the arithmetic operators, like so:
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How to add/insert a well aligned graphics on top of another one?
I think it may perhaps be easier just to combine plots and modify (e.g. suppress unnecessary frame ticks). I post this as a motivating answer rather than definitive answer. ...
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TraditionalForm overriding settings given to Column for row alignment
The problem is that you gave "\[Equal]" as the centering character, but you should have given "\[LongEqual]".
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Control of individual Framed edges?
An alternative way of getting a similar display would be to define a new function leftFramed that only puts a vertical extensible line to the left of the content:
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help example blank in 11.3 under ref/ExclusionsStyle
This comes from a bug we were working on shortly before release. We have a special documentation build which builds the documentation notebooks from source (authoring) notebooks. One of the things ...
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HoldForm is not working as I would expect
Why it happens
When you enter an expression and evaluate it in Mathematica, MakeExpression is used to convert the box expression (i.e. the description of the exact ...
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Elegant zebra striping for Grid?
Does this work?
Grid[RandomInteger[1, {5, 4}],
Background -> {None, {Lighter[Blue, .9], {White, GrayLevel[.9]}}},
Dividers -> All
]
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Printing binary numbers with extra zeros
It's unclear in your question if you are asking for a String for NumberForm.
FORM
If you want to change the Form but not ...
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Display 10^n as power
I hadnt seen Eldos answer before now, but I did copy the SetAttributes and ClearAll from him.
Define:
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What rules determine displaying implicit '×' between products of functions in Mathematica 12?
Rough answer: things which are "mathy functions" don't show the the implict times, all others do. Numbers times function or symbols times function don't show the symbol. Two NumberQ things in a row ...
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how to use MatrixForm on a matrix after applying NumberForm on it?
Export suffers similar problem. The solution I found is, use *Form only on numbers:
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HoldForm is not working as I would expect
(The basic idea is from this answer by xzczd.)
Try this:
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Ugly fraction in a label
Based on @Mike's answer here, add ScriptLevel -> 1 to Style.
Mathematica uses the ...
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