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Re: Changing the positions of limits on displayed mathematical

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• Subject: [mg86134] Re: [mg86121] Changing the positions of limits on displayed mathematical
• From: Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
• Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 04:39:24 -0500 (EST)
• References: <200803021857.NAA20004@smc.vnet.net>

J. McKenzie Alexander wrote:

>I'm using Mathematica to typeset formulas for inclusion in Keynote  
>(pasted in as PDFs) and I was wondering how to change where the limits  
>of summation are placed on a displayed formula.  In the cell below, I  
>have a summation appearing in the denominator of a fraction and the  
>limits are, by default, placed off to the right; I greatly prefer  
>having the limits written above and below the Sigma.  I've highlighted  
>the summation and looked through a bunch of options using the Option  
>Inspector, but I have no idea what I should change...
>
>Any help would be appreciated. I'm sure this is a trivial problem but  
>I don't know where to look!
>
>Cell[TextData[Cell[BoxData[
>  FormBox[
>   StyleBox[
>    RowBox[{
>     RowBox[{
>      SubsuperscriptBox["p", "i", "j"], "(",
>      RowBox[{"t", "+", "1"}], ")"}], "=",
>     FractionBox[
>      RowBox[{
>       RowBox[{"k", "\[CenterDot]",
>        RowBox[{
>         SubsuperscriptBox["p", "i", "j"], "(", "t", ")"}]}], "+",
>       RowBox[{"Cov", "(", "j", ")"}]}],
>      RowBox[{"k", "+",
>       RowBox[{
>        UnderoverscriptBox["\[Sum]",
>         RowBox[{"j", "=", "1"}], "n"],
>        RowBox[{"Cov", "(", "j", ")"}]}]}]]}], "DisplayFormula"],
>   TraditionalForm]],
>  FormatType->"TraditionalForm"]], "Text",
>  CellChangeTimes->{{3.413467535896776*^9, 3.413467687100032*^9}}]
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jason
>
>--
>Dr J. McKenzie Alexander
>Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
>London School of Economics and Political Science
>Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
>
>
>
>
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>  
>
Select the cell, then using the Option Inspector, lookup 
LimitsPositioning for UnderoverscriptBox, and set it to False.

Carl Woll
Wolfram Research

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  • Changing the positions of limits on displayed mathematical notation
    • From: "J. McKenzie Alexander" <jalex@lse.ac.uk>