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Re: holding boxes verbatim

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• Subject: [mg56257] Re: holding boxes verbatim
• From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve_usenet at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
• Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 05:31:50 -0400 (EDT)
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It sounds to as if the Notation package could be used to solve your problem. 
Have a look at Notation Package in Master Index area of the the Help 
browser.

Steve Luttrell

"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,
> -- 
> Chris Chiasson
> Kettering University
> Mechanical Engineering
> Graduate Student
> 1 810 265 3161
>