Re: re: mg11400 making MatrixForm the default
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg11591] Re: [mg11515] re: mg11400 making MatrixForm the default
- From: David Withoff <withoff@wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:43:16 -0500
> As a newcomer to Mathematica and always irritated by difficult to use > software , as I study some of the questions and answers thru mathgroup > I saw one about having MatrixForm be the default. The answer given > seems , to me anyway, to come right out of the clear blue sky, > something that would seem difficult to reason out and absurdly > complex. In my own attempt to always make things simpler to > understand, easier to use, etc. I wondered why couldnt there simply > be a command in Mathematica that just says this: > > MatrixForm/Default > > Compare this to the answer given (basically abbreviated but just > intended to show all the statements involved ) > > MakeBoxes[Function[MatrixQ[Unevaluated[HoldAll[Form[GridBox...and it > goes on and on ....] > > I cant help it but my blood simply boils at this kind of statement. > > With Time such an important quantity and math itself difficult > enough, why should Mathematica add more complexity to it? > > thanks. Jerry Blimbaum US Navy Lab Panama City > Florida If you want everything to be displayed in MatrixForm you can do $PrePrint = MatrixForm which is about as simple as the command that you suggested. The more elaborate solution that you quoted was presumably intended for a different purpose, or with a different interpretation of what "having MatrixForm be the default" means. Dave Withoff Wolfram Research