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Re: DisplayForm

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg71036] Re: DisplayForm
• From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
• Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 02:52:38 -0500 (EST)
• References: <acbec1a40611040844k24169yfd28ae22caea8d37@mail.gmail.com>

I made this work and then committed the change.

On 11/4/06, Chris Chiasson <chris at chiasson.name> wrote:
> can someone please explain this?
>
> In[1]:=
> "Unimodal"
> DisplayForm@ToBoxes["Unimodal"]
>
> Out[1]=
> Unimodal
>
> Out[2]//DisplayForm=
> "Unimodal"
>
> From my understanding of DisplayForm, it should exactly match the
> output generated in Out[1]. However, it does not seem to pick up on
> the "Output" style rule of not drawing string characters. Why?
>
> This is important to me because I am trying to mimick the behavior of
> the "Output" style (in StandardForm) when the expression is
> formattable as a string. I have a function that is pretty close, but
> the string quoting is off a bit.
>
> If you want to see the version in the trunk, look for toString in
>
> http://mmade.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/XML/DocBook/DocBook.m
>
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>


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