Re: Prefix Forms on the BasicMath Palette
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg84156] Re: Prefix Forms on the BasicMath Palette
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:15:33 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
- Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu
I opened BasicMath Palette.nb in a text editor and located the
corresponding entries for those two buttons to be:
RowBox[{
SuperscriptBox["\[InvisiblePrefixScriptBase]",
"\[Placeholder]"], "\[SelectionPlaceholder]"}]
RowBox[{
SubscriptBox["\[InvisiblePrefixScriptBase]",
"\[Placeholder]"], "\[SelectionPlaceholder]"}]
The \[InvisiblePrefixScriptBase] is documented in the Documentation
Center on the page ref/character/InvisiblePrefixScriptBase as a
"Mathematica character".
Evidently, as others have noted, one cannot use the combinations shown
as is from the palette in order to create a legitimate symbol. (Perhaps
there's some way, though, to include it in a larger construction in
order to create a symbol. I looked in the Notations package and didn't
directly see a way with Symbolize there.)
However, a Text cell definitely can accept such a thing, e.g., with x as
the Placeholder and y as the SelectionPlaceholder.
David Park wrote:
> On the BasicMath Palette there are two forms that appear to have sub >
> and super scripts in a prefix position. They are the two items on the
> right in the next to last row.
> These do not appear to work at all, and there does not appear to be
> corresponding names for them. Does anyone how these work and what one
> can do with them?
--
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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