Re: holding boxes verbatim
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- Subject: [mg56245] Re: holding boxes verbatim
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 05:30:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Washington
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"Chris Chiasson" <chris.chiasson at gmail.com> wrote in message news:d42l18$3gf$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Dear Math Group gurus, > > Mathematica is annoying me. I would like some way to type in a two > dimensional box form (representing an arbitrary expression) and assign > it to a symbol. I would then like to be able to operate on the > expression by, for instance: > 1 printing it > 2 printing it with some variables' values substitued into it > 3 and finally evaluating it > > Hold and its variants do not do the job because they prevent > expression evaluation, but I need something that will keep its box > form exactly as I have typed it. > > Please, how does one do this? > > A method for doing this is very useful to me because my professors > like to see the variables substitued into the original (not > Mathematica reparsed original, but verbatim original) equations. > > Thank you for your very valuable time, An example of the desired behavior would be helpful. At any rate, have you tried using HoldForm? For example: expr = HoldForm[2^(x+1)]; expr expr /. x->2 ReleaseHold[ expr /. x->2 ] x + 1 2 2 + 1 2 8 I used InputForm instead of a 2D box form for expr for legibility, but using a 2D box form for expr won't cause any problems. If the above is not helpful, please give an example of the behavior you desire. Carl Woll