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Re: Readability confuses mathematica?

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• Subject: [mg44507] Re: Readability confuses mathematica?
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:26:58 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

have a look at the Notation package and symbolize Subscript[x,0]

Regards
  Jens

patrick_m_lahey wrote:
> 
> I am new to mathematica so perhaps there is a simple answer to this
> 
> Consider:
> 
> In[1]:= D[x-x0,x]
> 
> except that x0 is really x ctrl-- 0 (x subscript 0).  Normally that
> would be a completely independent variable from x but not according to
> mathematica!
> 
> Out[1]=1-Subscript(1,0)[x,0]
> 
> (the (1,0) is a superscript of Subscript).
> 
> One of the things that attracted me to mathematica was the ability to
> work with expressions that closely mirrored the true expressions of
> interest (a readability issue really...).
> 
> Is there anything that can be done here?