Primed Variables in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg50652] Primed Variables in Mathematica
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:50:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Primed variables are in such common use in textbooks and papers that I don't understand why Mathematica doesn't allow them. Of course, x' represents a derivative, but there is a prime character that can be obtained by esc ' esc or by \[Prime]. x\[Prime] // Head Symbol But the problem is that the \[Prime] character is not raised but sits at the same level as x. It would be much better if the \[Prime] character were raised to the normal level to give better looking expressions. I admit that there could be some visual confusion, but not Mathematica confusion, with derivatives, but it would usually be clear from context. I wish that WRI would fix the Prime, DoublePrime, ReversePrime and ReverseDoublePrime characters so they displayed at the correct vertical level in expressions. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
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