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Re: Silly question about Contexts

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• Subject: [mg84194] Re: Silly question about Contexts
• From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
• Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:49:02 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Peter,

instead of a symbol, you could give a string to display:

InterpretationBox[SubscriptBox["r", 2], r2]

But note that this can not be read back into mathematica

hope this helps, Daniel



Peters wrote:

> Hi, 

> 

> Sorry for this question, but is there any way to suppress display of Context in the Mathematica 6 output? In particular, I define:

> 

> r2/:MakeBoxes[r2,fmt_]:=InterpretationBox[SubscriptBox[r,2],r2];

> r2

> 

> and Mathematica returns

> 

> Subscript[Global`r, 2]

> 

> which is correct, but clutters my output a lot (as I have many of those). Is there any way to make it just display Subscript[r,2] without showing Context? It used to be like that in Mathematica 4...

>