Re: Percent symbol still lacking
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- Subject: [mg81723] Re: [mg81662] Percent symbol still lacking
- From: "Richard Palmer" <rhpalmer at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:38:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Very good point. These kinds of things make it harder to move Mathematica into commercial venues. On 10/1/07, Cca <cca at gregosetroianos.mat.br> wrote: > > > > We all have seem many enhancements in Mathematica 6 -- from small to large > ones. In the "small" area, for example, we now have NumberPoint at ALL > levels (allowing the use o commas as a decimal point!), ImplicitPlus for > mixed fractions and RawPercent a little embellished in TraditionalForm. > > However, it is curious that we still do not have a proper percent sign as > a unit multiplier! I mean, an stylished "%" that returns 1/100 -- or a > Percent symbol with this numerical value and which is printed as %. We need > something like this as much as we need LongEqual as opposed to RawEqual. > Meanwhile, I'll continue to use > > InterpretationBox["%", 1/100, SelectWithContents -> True] > > ---------------------- > Carlos C=E9sar de Ara=FAjo > Gregos & Troianos Educacional > http://www.gregosetroianos.mat.br > MSN: cca_gregosetroianos at hotmail.com > Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil > (31) 3283-1122 > > > -- Richard Palmer Home 508 877-3862 Cell 508 982-7266
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- Percent symbol still lacking
- From: Cca <cca@gregosetroianos.mat.br>
- Percent symbol still lacking