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Re: mg11400 making MatrixForm the default



blimbaum_jerry@ccmail.ncsc.navy.mil wrote:
> 
>      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


Jerry,

This may have already been mentioned:

In TraditionalForm matrices are shown in 2 dimensions and in brackets.
You can:
	- 	convert a selcted cell to TraditionalForm with menu Cell>ConvertTo;
	- 	make TraditionalForm default for all output from now on by using
		menu Cell>DefaultOutputForm

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