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Re: (how to) make a "boxes" from a MatrixForm representation?

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• Subject: [mg60205] Re: (how to) make a "boxes" from a MatrixForm representation?
• From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve_usenet at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
• Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 04:04:03 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <dfj9fq$rg4$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

You want to display a continued fraction.

Have a look at ContinuedFractionForm which is in the standard package 
NumberTheory`ContinuedFractions`.

Steve Luttrell

<dbsearch04 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dfj9fq$rg4$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello notebook Gurus:
>
> I plead for some direction. I can get an expression to be made into a
> "boxes" by somthing like this:
>
> g = ToBoxes[Nest[1 + 1/# &, y, 7]]
>
> So far, so good. Now I have a list in MatrixForm, that I want to make
> into "boxes" also:
>
> a = {1, 21, 311, 4111, 51111, 611111, 7111111};
> (* here is what I want *)
> a // MatrixForm
> (* this is no good!@#$% *)
> g1 = ToBoxes[a, MatrixForm]
>
> It will only take members of (the list) $BoxForms.
>
> Can you point me to the solution?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards..Roger
>