RE: Errors in Copying and Pasting Heads of Expressions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg41450] RE: [mg41433] Errors in Copying and Pasting Heads of Expressions
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 03:27:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
This strange problem that had been around for a few days seems to have gone away after I defragmented my hard drive. From: David Park [mailto:djmp at earthlink.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net I have been obtaining a strange error when I copy and paste an expression Head under 4.2.1 on Windows98. I wonder if other users obtain the same error? Below I have pasted a small Notebook expression that illustrates the error. When I copied and pasted the head of Binomial[n,m] (as a simple random example) it seemed to be pasted in as a TraditionalForm, but did not evaluate properly. If I copy and paste the entire expression there is no problem. I am not using any TraditionalForm and this was done in a fresh notebook. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ Notebook[{ Cell[CellGroupData[{ Cell["Copying and Pasting Error", "Title"], Cell[CellGroupData[{ Cell[BoxData[ \(Binomial[n, \ m]\)], "Input"], Cell[BoxData[ \(Binomial[n, m]\)], "Output"] }, Open ]], Cell["\<\ The following was copied and pasted from the input statement above. \ It looks like it is in TraditionalForm. It doesn't evaluate \ properly.\ \>", "Text"], Cell[CellGroupData[{ Cell[BoxData[ \(InputForm\`Binomial\)], "Input", FormatType->StandardForm], Cell[BoxData[ \(Syntax::"sntxi" \(\(:\)\(\ \)\) "Incomplete expression; more input is needed.\!\(\"\"\)"\)], \ "Message"] }, Open ]], Cell["If it is simply typed in there is no problem.", "Text"], Cell[CellGroupData[{ Cell[BoxData[ \(Binomial\)], "Input"], Cell[BoxData[ \(Binomial\)], "Output"] }, Open ]] }, Open ]] }, FrontEndVersion->"4.2 for Microsoft Windows", ScreenRectangle->{{0, 1280}, {0, 943}}, WindowSize->{494, 740}, WindowMargins->{{0, Automatic}, {Automatic, 0}} ]