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Re: typesetting fractions

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• Subject: [mg45719] Re: typesetting fractions
• From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
• Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 04:55:02 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <bua2v1$ild$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:

> An underlying difficulty is that there is no separate notion of "display 
>   math" -- mathematical expressions displayed on separate lines -- as 
> opposed to math within normal paragraphs of text.  This may be an 
> unfortunate front-end design limitation.

Are you sure? You can individually control the Default FormatType for 
TextInline which, by default is set to TraditionalForm. And for "display 
math" (e.g. NumberedEquation cells in some StyleSheets), you can 
independently control the formatting.

Note that you can define your _own_ FormatType, not just be restricted 
to InputForm, OutputForm, StandardForm and TraditionalForm. Defining a 
FormatType from scratch is, of course, non-trivial but one can use 
ParentForm to define a new FormatType that inherits formats from one of 
the built-in FormatTypes.

I hope to include an example of using ParentForm in the forthcoming 
issue of The Mathematica Journal.

Cheers,
Paul

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