RE: Notation and Symbolize Packages
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- Subject: [mg45984] RE: [mg45972] Notation and Symbolize Packages
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 05:20:17 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Robert, If you just want to use subscripted variables there is a package by Ted Ersek, SymbolizeSubscripts, on MathGroup. It uses the Notations package and takes care of the interface for you. difficult to use. It is not well documented and does not provide a knowledge path that will lead one to become reasonably competent in creating notations. I don't think the notations are quite as general as one might expect and do not smoothly mesh with the rest of Mathematica. You can find yourself spending much more time on the notations than on your actual technical problem. I have never been successful with it. I often complain about it because I think it would be a nice facility to have. But it is beyond my reach. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Prince-Wright, Robert G SEPCO To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net [mailto:robert.prince-wright at shell.com] Does someone know if Mathematica 5 uses the same version of the Notation package as that posted at Wolfram.com. The web page below lists several files that are not continaned in the ZIP file. http://library.wolfram.com/packages/notation/ The reason I looked at this site was to try and understand how to use Symbolize in the Notation package. This seems to be one of the most frustrating aspects of Mathematica, especially for engineers who routinely use subscripts, accents etc in their traditional notations. It seems like one mistake, like not using the palette because you copy and past can get you into unfathomable trouble - especially when using Modules. On that point - am I correct in thinking that you cant mix normal and Symbolized arguments to functions you are defining or have I made another unfathomable mistake? Finally, if the folks at Wolfram are watching is there a reason by we can have an option to Symbolize all variables in a Notebook - I would doubt there are many engineers out there using subscripts as variables. Robert Prince-Wright HSE Engineer Shell Exploration & Production Company One Shell Square, P. O. Box 61933, New Orleans, LA 70161-1933, United States of America Tel: +1 504 728 7720 7720 Email: robert.prince-wright at shell.com Internet: http://www.shell.com