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Re: Colored Output

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  • Subject: [mg87230] Re: [mg87193] Colored Output
  • From: Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 04:20:46 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <200804040754.CAA03661@smc.vnet.net>

foice.news at gmail.com wrote:

>I would like to have evaluated expression with some costants painted
>in a particular color, just to make reading easier.
>Say my input is
>
>D[a*Sin[x]]
>
>and the output should be
>
>a*Cos[x]
>
>with colored "a", say magenta.
>
>Is this achievable, and how? which kind of attributed of the constant
>a should I set?
>
>Best
>Roberto
>  
>
You can use MakeBoxes:

MakeBoxes[a, StandardForm] := StyleBox["a", Green]

Then, evaluate

D[a Sin[x], x]

If you're default output format type is TraditionalForm, then just 
substitute TraditionalForm for StandardForm in the MakeBoxes rule.

Carl Woll
Wolfram Research


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