problems with typesetting in packages
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg62441] problems with typesetting in packages
- From: "Hannes Kessler" <HannesKessler at hushmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:33:41 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear Mathematica experts, the following problem: Mathematica's typesetting capabilities are nice in notebooks to improve the readability of equations (powers in supscript-notation etc.). However, when one saves such a notebook as a Mathematica-package, all the typesetting information is saved also. In the package, which is essentially just an ASCII-file, the typesetting information is useless and sometimes creates errors. At best, it makes it very hard to read the package using a text editor. Here is an example, how x^3 entered in supscript notation into the initialization cell of a Mathematica notebook looks in the package: \!\(x\^3\) Upon creating larger packages, Mathematica apparently sometimes does not balance the parentheses correctly: Reading such a package back to a notebook, Mathematica complains on syntax errors. I had no choice than to rewrite all nicely typesetted formulas in the original notebook in plain Mathematica syntax without any typesetting and to save the package again. Now my question: Is it possible to use typesetting in the Mathematica notebook on one hand, and to save it to a package without any typesetting information on the other hand? Thanks for any advice. Hannes Kessler