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Re: Typesetting on the Mathematica users wiki

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  • Subject: [mg69735] Re: [mg69678] Typesetting on the Mathematica users wiki
  • From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:04:01 -0400 (EDT)

I'm dissatisfied with the information available on typesetting
available in the Mathematica, so I started a typesetting section in
the Mathematica Users wiki. Please contribute if you wish.

http://www.mathematica-users.org/webMathematica/wiki/wiki.jsp?pageName=Wikibook

Also, it would be nice if the URL string in the address bar gave the
address of the current page. It would be doubly nice if the title bar
reflected the name of the current page as well :-]

On 9/20/06, Chris Chiasson <chris at chiasson.name> wrote:
> I went through a phase with the Notation package too. It is quite
> useful, but I recommend just working directly with Format + MakeBoxes
> and MakeExpression if you're going to change things. Think of the
> Notation package as a graphical wrapper for defining
> MakeBoxes/MakeExpression rules via the notebook interface instead of
> typing everything out. Anyway, you could probably guess how to define
> the correct MakeExpression rule just from looking at the source code
> you provided to us.
>
> MakeExpression[RowBox[{SuperscriptBox["\[Del]","2"],whatever_String}],_]:=
>   MakeExpression["delSquared"<>whatever]
>
> I strongly caution you to stay away from MakeExpression. Just think of
> the problems WRI has with TraditionalForm input - and they invented
> the Mathematica box model. Format & MakeBoxes, OOTH, are nice
> functions for formatting your output.
>
> On 9/20/06, Peter <pjcrosbie at attglobal.net> wrote:
> > I am attempting to write more readable code by defining some custom
> > symbols.  I can get simple constructions to sumbolize but I fail on
> > anything too complicated.  For example,
> >
> > Symbolize[$B"&(B_]
> >
> > Cell[BoxData[
> >     RowBox[{"Symbolize", "[",
> >       TagBox["\[EmptyDownTriangle]_",
> >         NotationBoxTag,
> >         TagStyle->"NotationTemplateStyle"], "]"}]], "Input"]
> >
> > Works fine and symbolizes things like $B"&(Bf without problems.
> >
> > However, if I add a superscript to the $B"&(B as in
> >
> >  Cell[BoxData[
> >     RowBox[{"Symbolize", "[",
> >       TagBox[
> >         RowBox[{
> >           SuperscriptBox["\[EmptyDownTriangle]", "2"], "_"}],
> >         NotationBoxTag,
> >         TagStyle->"NotationTemplateStyle"], "]"}]], "Input"]
> >
> > then the symbol following the $B"&(B^2 is always interpreted as a
> > multiplication.
> >
> > Any ideas would be really helpful.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> http://chris.chiasson.name/
>


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