Re: Subscripts, Doh!!!
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg19070] Re: Subscripts, Doh!!!
- From: "David Bailey" <db at salford-software.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 01:34:56 -0400
- Organization: University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK
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Mike Tiller <mtiller at ford.com> wrote in message news:7o5ier$rme at smc.vnet.net... > > I have Mathematica 3.0 for Windows and I hate the way it handles > subscripts. I read about the Notation package. Is there a way to > make a general rule (e.g. using "Symbolize") that will avoid > expressions seeing subscripting as an operation? I can do it on a > per-symbol basis, but that is really tedious. > > Also, I saw some references in the newsgroup to the "latest" version > of Notation, but the web page of the guy mentioned (somebody named > Harris I think) is no longer on the wolfram site. > > I really hate the 3.0 interpretation of subscripts. Has it changed in > 4.0!? I have always found the way Mathematica handles subscripts rather neat (and it is just the same in 4.0). I wonder why you find such problems with the concept. - it really lets you do whatever you want with subscripts. For example, if you paste the following into your notebook (and execute it) you will cause all your subscripted 'a' s to be evaluated to a concatenated symbol: \!\(a\_i_ := Symbol[ToString[a] <> ToString[i]]\) As the above example illustrates, a subscripted expression is really analogous to f[i] - you can define it as a function or leave it unevaluated in algebraic expressions just as you wish. Do you have a specific example of something you wish to do? David Bailey, Salford Software