Re: Primed Variables in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg50699] Re: [mg50652] Primed Variables in Mathematica
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:16:29 -0400 (EDT)
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Interesting typographical issue here (I won't respond to the issue of using primed variables). TraditionalForm[f'] gives an entirely pleasing, raised prime. TraditionalForm[f''] does, too. TraditionalForm[f'''] gives an appealing rendering of f with a superscript (3). David Park wrote: > 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/ > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Primed Variables in Mathematica
- From: "David Park" <djmp@earthlink.net>
- Primed Variables in Mathematica