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Re: problem with making boxes

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• Subject: [mg61848] Re: problem with making boxes
• From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
• Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:39:52 -0500 (EST)
• References: <200510310949.46357.hattons@globalsymmetry.com> <acbec1a40510311009o7f2ccc74p621964a9e2a64e66@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 31 October 2005 01:09 pm, Chris Chiasson wrote:
> This is the same solution I mailed to MathGroup a little under 40 min
> after I posted the question. :-] Unfortunately, the second email will
> probably not come out until tomorrow :-[
>
> Your solution does work correctly.

Have a look at StringForm in 2.9.6 of the Mathematica Book.  Also look at the 
discussion of using the options for number formatting for an example of how 
it can be used.

> So, did you figure it out by typing in what you wanted to see and by
> then using Ctrl+E? That's how I did it.

Actually I noticed your post just after I posted my suggestion.  Actually, I 
took a much longer route to studying the problem.  The first thing I did was 
to copy the output to input and try editing it.  That's when I noticed that 
changing adding the comma at the specific location corrected the display.  It 
took a bit of doing to get it to look like this:

\!\(\*
  TagBox[
    TagBox[\(MapThread[#1\ (#2) &, {{\(\([\)\(Na\^+\)\(]\)\), \
\[Gamma]\_\(Ca\^\(\(2\)\(+\)\)\), "I", "S"}, {M\/L, "1", 
            M\/L, \(\(10\^\(-5\)\) M\)\/L}}]\),
      DisplayForm],
    HoldForm]\)

I don't recall all the steps I took, but at some point I tried messing with 
the space around the ")", and that changed the hight of the glyph from 
spanning the Fraction["M","L"] to spanning the hight of one line of text.  
That's what convinced me the RowBox was an appropriate fix.  It seems 
superfluous to have to put such things in a single row of text, but it looks 
to be a common practice. It certainly present in a lot of MathML code.

  <mtable rowlines="solid dashed dashed" columnlines="dashed dashed solid">
    <mtr>
      <mtd>
        <mn>1</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mn>0</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mn>0</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mrow>
          <mo>&not;</mo>
          <mrow>
            <mo>(</mo>
            <mrow>
              <mi>P</mi>
              <mo>&or;</mo>
              <mrow>
                <mo>&not;</mo>
                <mi>Q</mi>
              </mrow>
            </mrow>
            <mo>)</mo>
          </mrow>
        </mrow>
      </mtd>
    </mtr>
    <mtr>
      <mtd>
        <mn>0</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mn>1</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mn>0</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mn>0</mn>
      </mtd>
    </mtr>
    <mtr>
      <mtd>
        <mn>0</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mn>0</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mn>1</mn>
      </mtd>
      <mtd>
        <mn>0</mn>
      </mtd>
    </mtr>
  </mtable>

</math>