Re: Constructing a Label
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- Subject: [mg93375] Re: Constructing a Label
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:55:02 -0500 (EST)
- References: <gepb15$sfr$1@smc.vnet.net>
Nikolaus Rath schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I want to automatically construct labels of the form
> "A = <value of A>" for a number of plots.
>
> However, I cannot quite figure out how to generate the above
> expression. My first idea was to construct it as a string
>
> label = "A = " <> ToString[A]
>
> but this looks horribly if A is more complicated than just a single
> literal. So I assume that I have to "concatenate" the Mathematica
> expressions "A = " and A (rather than the stringified A). But how do I
> do that? My feeble attempts with
>
> label = RowBox["A", "=", A]
For Version 6 you are close, this should work:
label=Row[{"A","=",A}]
for earlier versions you would need something like:
label=DisplayForm[RowBox[{"A","=",ToBoxes[A]}]]
but that also depends a little on what you will then do with label...
hth,
albert