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Modifying displayed form of an expression?

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• Subject: [mg57127] Modifying displayed form of an expression?
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 21:35:25 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Stanford University
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I have a number of symbolic results which emerge from a Mathematica 
calculation in the form  

                a  Exp[b] 
  f  =  ----------------------------------
              Exp[c] - Exp[d]

where a is "other stuff" and b, c and d are simple sums like b = b1 + b2 
+ b3.  By default Mathematica seems to shuffle the elements of b, c and 
d in these results such that there will be only positive signs in the 
exponents b, c and d.

I want to force Mathematica to display each of these expressions in the 
form

                  a Exp[b - c]
     -------------------------------------------
               1 -  Exp[d - c]

so that the leading term in the denominator is always one (which will in 
fact mean that these expressions all have the same common denominator).  
How might I do this?

Note: I only want to force this display of each expression _once_, when 
I first calculate it, and I'm willing to do some handwork on each 
expression to accomplish this.  Thus, I don't need some sophisticated 
general tool, just a way to do this "by hand".  I've been trying Inputs  
like

      (Exp[-c] Numerator[f]) / (Exp[-c] Denominator[f])

and not getting anywhere.

Ideas?

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  • Re: Modifying displayed form of an expression?
    • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>
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