RE: Re: Re: Using Mathgroup Effectively -- cutting and pasting expressions
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- Subject: [mg34915] RE: [mg34864] Re: [mg34834] Re: Using Mathgroup Effectively -- cutting and pasting expressions
- From: "DrBob" <majort at cox-internet.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:16:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Amen! Probably at least ten percent of my efforts go to dealing with the difference between what I see and what I get, and not just when pasting to e-mail. It's tricky pasting between and within notebooks, too. Sometimes your selection (apparently) begins or ends at an awkward place in the ugly "Show Expression" world, where you can't see it. Copy as Plain Text and other work-arounds generally DON'T work-around. Where's WYSIWYG when you want it? Bobby -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Rockmann [mailto:MTheory at msn.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg34915] [mg34864] Re: [mg34834] Re: Using Mathgroup Effectively -- cutting and pasting expressions Yeah, I support Richard's comments regarding the inability to just cut and paste from Mathematica to email as well as go back to Mathematica and like Richard I also have had no luck with text editors. MathGroup might work more efficiently in general if this innovation were added to Mathematica. I have had the experience with old pros in MathGroup that were having this same problem. And if any problems resulted from this ability, they could always be controlled. Alot of us in MathGroup are Professors or Professionals who are doing are best to manage our time constraints and yet work with MathGroup. This addition to the technology would make things a whole lot easier for some of us. Thank You, Jonathan Rockmann mtheory at msn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Palmer To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg34915] [mg34864] [mg34834] Re: Using Mathgroup Effectively -- cutting and pasting expressions Hi Steve, Thanks for your reply. I know it isn't your problem as the mail group moderator, but I am personally annoyed at the difficulty of copying and pasting sections of Mathematica code as text. When I cut and paste from a notebook using an ASCII text editor (TEXTEDIT on the MAC) the result comes out like Cell[BoxData[ \(InverseFourierTransform[\((\(\[ExponentialE]\^\(1\/2\ \[ImaginaryI] \ t\ \ \((2\ \[Mu] + \[ImaginaryI]\ t\ \[Sigma]\^2)\)\)\ \((1 + Erf[\(\[Mu] + \ \[ImaginaryI]\ t\ \[Sigma]\^2\)\/\(\@2\ \[Sigma]\)])\)\)\/\(1 + Erf[\[Mu]\/\(\ \@2\ \[Sigma]\)]\))\)\^n, t, x, FourierParameters \[Rule] {1, 1}]\)], "Output"] }, Open ]], This is absolutely worthless for communication. To make matters worse, If I open up a Mathematica session and paste the expression above into the session, Mathematica throws an error. My hope is that something will give and either Mathgroup can find a way to post notebooks or Mathematica can find a way to cut and paste expressions in some useful and readable way into emails. If you feel it is appropriate, please post our conversation into mathgroup. Perhaps I am missing something here. Thanks in advance. Richard Palmer On 6/2/02 12:40 AM, "Steven M. Christensen" <steve at smc.vnet.net> wrote: > I think that your best bet is to describe your problem and notebooks > in your main email as best you can and then offer to email attached > notebooks to anyone who wants to see them. Otherwise you can just > bring up a notebook in an ascii editor and cut and past the notebook > or bits of the notebook to your email. > > Steve C. > >> From dickp at bellatlantic.net Sat Jun 1 08:08:52 2002 >> Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 08:04:54 -0400 >> Subject: [mg34915] [mg34864] [mg34834] Using Mathgroup Effectively -- cutting and pasting expressions >> From: Richard Palmer <dickp at bellatlantic.net> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >> >> I understand it is your policy not to post emails containing notebook >> attachments. What is the best way to cut expressions from a notebook into >> email so others can paste them into their Mathematica notebooks to see what you are >> talking about? >> >> If host machines make a difference, I'm using a MAC G4 under OSX. >> >> Richard Palmer >> -- >> >> >> --