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Re: Re: Re: Mathematica Ouput: subscripts and superscripts

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  • Subject: [mg15107] Re: [mg15071] Re: [mg15058] Re: Mathematica Ouput: subscripts and superscripts
  • From: Carl Woll <carlw at fermi.phys.washington.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 03:59:08 -0500
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There is a way to declare all subscripted symbols to be symbols. Just
use Symbolize with a Blank subscripted with another Blank. It's a
little hard to write down in 1D syntax, but something like

Symbolize[___]

where the middle blank means subscript.

As far as the palette goes, check out the web site

http://www.wolfram.com/support/Packages/Utilities/Typing.html

which gives a way of using Symbolize without the palette.

Carl Woll
Dept of Physics
U of Washington

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, MJE wrote:

> I think there should be a means of declaring *all* subscripted symbols
> to be symbols.
> 
> The Notation package is fantastic but requires manual declarations for
> each and every subscripted variable.  That gets tedious and
> error-prone.
> 
> If there were some way to declare all subscripted symbols as
> "Symbolized" then those which are generated on the fly by a program
> would also work.
> 
> As I recall Symbolize required input to be generated from a special
> palette, which is rather hard to do from inside a program.
> 
> Mark
> remove ."nospam" to reply
> 
> 
> Dale Horton wrote:
> > 
> > See
> > 
> > http://www.wolfram.com/support/Packages/Utilities/SubscriptedVariables.html
> > 
> > -Dale
> > 
> > Andreas Paul Friedrich Bernhard wrote in message
> > <74aj8i$46k at smc.vnet.net>...
> > >
> > >sub/super/over and underscripts. However, is it possible to define a
> > >variable (including any sub,super,over,underscripts) that is recognised
> > >as a single expression.
> > >
> > >For example I would like to use a variable defined as an x with two over
> > >dots (as in "x dot dot"), however Mathematica will not permit this.
> > >
> > >Similarly I would like to define a variable defined as x with the
> > >subscript 0a, however Mathematica will treats the subscript as a
> > >seperate 0*a subexpression, rather than an intrinsic part of the
> > >variable definition.
> > >
> > >Andy
> > >
> > >
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