Re: typing/formatting multi-part definition with alignment
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- Subject: [mg41100] Re: [mg41067] typing/formatting multi-part definition with alignment
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye at attbi.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 04:00:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Carl Woll has created an especially easy solution to this math entry
problem -- one that does not require removing fingers from keyboards (no
menu selections, no use of palettes):
Ctrl-(f(t) = { 0 if t < 0 Ctrl-Enter 1 if t >= 0 Right-arrow
\[AutoRightMatch] Ctrl-)
Adding more rows or columns to the GridBox that is creatd may be done by
means of the usual keyboard shortcuts. In that case, as several
respondents pointed out, the option SpanMaxSize most likely needs to be
reset by means of the Options Inspector from its default Auto to Infinity.
Thanks to all who responded in mathgroup or privately.
I devoutly wish that this sort of thing were easier to get at in
documentation without having to (re-)pick peoples' brains in mathgroup.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye at attbi.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:26:15 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [mg41100] [mg41067] typing/formatting multi-part definition with alignment
>
> A basic mathematical type-setting operation is to build up a display of
> a form such as
>
> / 0 if t < 0,
> f(t) = <
> \ 1 if t >= 0.
>
> where what I have typed here with the < sign, forward slash, and
> backward slash stands for a large curly brace. This display is to
> appear using Traditional math notation and to be part of a text cell.
>
> How can one (preferably, easily) type such a thing in Mathematica?
--
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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