Re: Primed Variables in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg50694] Re: Primed Variables in Mathematica
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve_usenet at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:16:12 -0400 (EDT)
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If you use the prime as a superscript then it appears where you want it. Steve Luttrell "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:ci8n46$buq$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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/ > >