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Re: Re: Comment display style?

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• Subject: [mg94003] Re: [mg93996] Re: [mg93926] Comment display style?
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:38:50 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

I still don't understand the problem you are having.  If I type some
input expression in an Input cell and then keep typing to begin a
comment with (* and eventually end the comment with *), I can type a
subscripted expression within that comment; and I can type any
_mathematical_ expression by means of the standard method of entering
such: Ctrl-( to begin it, Ctrl-) to end it.

Virgil Stokes wrote:
> Virgil Stokes wrote:
>> Suppose I have the following Mathematica input expression, (please try=

>> Unicode (UTF-8) character encoding if this expression is displayed wit=
h
>> some strange characters in it).
>>
>> =CE=94b={=CE=B4,0,0,0}; (* Perturb b1 *)
>>
>> How do I change the style of the comment so that it will display as b =

>> subscripted with 1?. That is, equivalent to $b_1$ in a LaTeX document.=

>>
>> In general, I would like to be able to have more control of how
>> individual characters are displayed in a comment.
>>
>> Note, I am using vers. 5.2 of Mathematica.
>>
>> --V. Stokes
>>
>>  
> Follow-up on this problem that I was having. There seems to be at least=

> two solutions to the problem:
>
> 1)  In a cell of style "text" enter the mathematical expression as
> desired and include this within the comment delimiters "(*" and "*)",
> then cut-and-paste this comment to the appropriate place in a style
> "input"  cell.
> 2)  While within a comment of a style "input" cell  select Cell from th=
e
> task bar -> Convert to StandardForm, and then enter the mathematical
> expression desired (as suggested by Szabolcs Horv=C3=A1t). Of course if=
 one
> is already in StandardForm this convert step is unnecessary.
>
> --V. Stokes
>
>

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  • Re: Comment display style?
    • From: Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se>