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Re: TraditionalForm of expressions WITHOUT evaluating.

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  • Subject: [mg52177] Re: TraditionalForm of expressions WITHOUT evaluating.
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 04:30:13 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 11/13/04 at 4:40 AM, ncc1701zzz at hotmail.com (Nacho) wrote:

>I would like to ask you how to do the following.

>I want to input some expressions (in InputForm or StandardForm) and
>display them in TraditionalForm but without evaluating them.

>For example, if I do:

>2+2 == 4 // TraditionalForm

>I obtain "True" in a nice font ;) but not the "2+2 = 4".

One simple way to achieve what you want would be to type 2+2 == 4 in a cell, do not evaluate by using shift-return, select the cell and go to Cell->ConvertTo->TraditionalForm

Another way would be to set the default input form to TradiationalForm and do not evaluate the cell.
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