RE: Tentative conclusion: Mathematica cannot output plain text
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- Subject: [mg39792] RE: [mg39762] Tentative conclusion: Mathematica cannot output plain text
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:39:15 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Carlos, Perhaps you didn't get an answer because people are not certain what you mean by "plain text". Mathematica provides the following forms for output cells. StandardForm - the default, which creates box structures TraditionalForm - which also creates box structures InputForm - This might be considered "plain text" OutputForm - "plain text" but using multiple lines if necessary for division, powers and subscripts. Copy these into you notebook and try them. (x^2 + Subscript[a, 1]^2)/(x^2 + Subscript[b, 1]^2) (x^2 + Subscript[a, 1]^2)/(x^2 + Subscript[b, 1]^2)//TraditionalForm (x^2 + Subscript[a, 1]^2)/(x^2 + Subscript[b, 1]^2)//InputForm (x^2 + Subscript[a, 1]^2)/(x^2 + Subscript[b, 1]^2)//OutputForm InputForm is good for copying into emails. StandardForm and TraditionalForm look best. Some people prefer TraditionalForm but it makes for long notebooks is you don't delete the output before saving. OutputForm is mostly a relic from pre Version 3 Mathematica when there were no box structures. Is that what you are asking about? David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ -----Original Message----- From: Carlos Felippa [mailto:carlos at colorado.edu] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg39792] [mg39762] Tentative conclusion: Mathematica cannot output plain text Because of the lack of response to my previous 2 queries, I take it that it is impossible to get Mathematica's front end to produce notebook output in plain text. Is this a correct statement?