DifferenitalD vs CapitalDifferenitalD
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- Subject: [mg87752] DifferenitalD vs CapitalDifferenitalD
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:51:19 -0400 (EDT)
The documentation for DifferenitalD states: DifferenitalD[x] displays as dx , where instead of d appears the smybol entered as "esc dd esc" (without the spaces). Yet when I enter DifferentialD[x] and evaluate I get back DifferenitalD[x] (not "esc dd esc x "). The documentation for CapitalDifferentialD seems identical to that for DifferentialD. Yet when I enter CapitalDifferentialD[x] I get Dx where D is the symbol entered as "esc DD esc". Moreover, "esc dd esc x" evaluates to DifferenitalD[x] but "esc DD esc x" evaluates to "esc DD esc x". It is all so confusing I feel like giving up on Mathematica typesetting altogether. Can anyone explain what is going on here? This is with $Version "6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (March 13, 2008)" $ReleaseNumber 2 Andrzej Kozlowski