Re: copying
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg45819] Re: copying
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:53:24 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Just to clarify: Omega Consulting wrote that palette, and posted it here a year or two ago. Bobby Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke) wrote in message news:<bv00pm$jg4$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > David: > > I added Bobby Treat's InputForm palette to my library. > > One reason I prefer to post plaintext from a MathKernel or MS-DOS > window is that subscript/superscript expressions print more > intuitively than from the InputForm palette. > > Consider the following example from "Built-in Functions > Algebraic > Computation > Calculus > Derivative", equation 11. > > > Using the InputForm palette, we have this raw text ... > > In[11]:= > Derivative[1, 2, 3][h][x, y, z] > Out[11]= > a*(b - 1)*b*(c - 2)*(c - 1)*c* > x^(a - 1)*y^(b - 2)* > z^(c - 3) > > > Using a MathKernel TextForm window, we have this raw text ... > > In[11]:= Derivative[1, 2, 3][h][x, y, z] > > -1 + a -2 + b -3 + c > Out[11]= a (-1 + b) b (-2 + c) (-1 + c) c x y z > > > To my eye, the TextForm expression is more intuitively and rapidly > read than Bobby's "PaletteForm" expression. That's why I recommend it > for postings. > > Best wishes, > Harold