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FW: Default Format for Matrices

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  • Subject: [mg8446] FW: Default Format for Matrices
  • From: Ersek_Ted%PAX1A at mr.nawcad.navy.mil
  • Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 00:42:57 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Ealier today I said:
|
|  It seems every time I have an output that is a matrix I type
|  In[n]:=  matrix//MatrixForm
|
|  I want to make a rule for   Format[]   or   MakeBoxes[]
|  so that MatrixForm (or an equivalent) is used by default for
|  Matrices with two or three columns
|
|  I have some experience with Format and MakeBoxes,
|  but I can't figure out this one.
|
|  Any ideas greatly appreciated.
|
|    Ted Ersek
|
Never mind I figured out how to do it.
I used the following:

MakeBoxes[m_?MatrixQ/; ( Dimensions[m] [[2]]<4 ), form_]:=
RowBox[{"(", GridBox[Map[MakeBoxes[#, form]&, m, {2}]],")"}]

Put this in your   init.m
and your small matrices will look like matrices in the output !!

I also used Utilities`Notation`
to define the usual notation for Inverse and Transpose of a Matrix.

     Ted Ersek



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