Re: TraditionalForm ordering
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- Subject: [mg80281] Re: [mg80217] TraditionalForm ordering
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200708150812.EAA09733@smc.vnet.net> <46C2F880.6040603@wolfram.com>
Thank you Dr. Woll.
On 8/15/07, Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com> wrote:
> Chris Chiasson wrote:
>
> >Is there some way to retain TraditionalForm, but have held expressions
> >maintain their original order? For instance, it would be useful if I
> >could make the expression below print as b+a instead of a+b. Are there
> >any secret options to TraditionalForm that do that?
> >
> >TraditionalForm@HoldForm[b+a]
> >
> >
> Use the undocumented function PolynomialForm:
>
> TraditionalForm @ PolynomialForm[HoldForm[b + a], TraditionalOrder -> False]
>
> Carl Woll
> Wolfram Research
>
> >Bonus points:
> >Explain the output of this command in terms of the pattern matching of
> >FormatValues, Attributes, and DefaultValues of Times.
> >
> >Grid[Outer[HoldForm@Times[1,##,1]&,{2,a,1},{2,a,1}],Dividers->All]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>
- TraditionalForm ordering