Re: Primed Symbols in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg93819] Re: Primed Symbols in Mathematica
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:16:21 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University System of Maryland
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I use a Superscript and then esc ' esc. This gives a nice big single quote for a prime. You need to Symbolize the symbol this with the Notation package. Works just fine. Here is an example \!\(\*SuperscriptBox["A", "\[Prime]"]\) Past this into a nb. Kevin John Fultz wrote: > You might find other characters in the Unicode spec which are treated by > Mathematica as letter-like, but have the appearance you want. For example, on > my Vista system, \:02b9 displays fine (unfortunately, \:02ba, the doubled > version, does not). Japanese has a double prime at \301e, but it won't look as > nice since it's being pulled from whatever Japanese font the system determines > should be substituted for your font. > > There's an advantage to using these since they're in standard Unicode positions, > but your mileage may vary from system to system and font to font as to whether > there's actually a glyph for the character or not. > > Sincerely, > > John Fultz > jfultz at wolfram.com > User Interface Group > Wolfram Research, Inc. > > > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:11:56 -0500 (EST), David Park wrote: >> Notice that if you type >> >> >> x\[Prime] or x\[DoublePrime] >> >> >> into Mathematica you obtain a perfectly good Symbol that can be used in >> any Mathematica expression. And you could use any other leading >> character(s) instead of x. The only trouble is that the Prime and >> DoublePrime sit at too low a level and therefore this does not look good. >> >> >> However, WRI has added many characters to the Mathematica character set >> and I don't see any reason why they couldn't add prime and double prime >> characters that DO sit at the correct level. This would make it very easy >> to use primed symbols without any other special programming or routines. >> >> >> I have to admit that I have broached this idea before and so far have not >> found even a single Mathematica user that was interested in such a >> facility. Still, primed symbols are very common in textbooks and papers >> and it seems to me that it would be useful to have an easy access to them >> in Mathematica. >> >> >> David Park >> >> djmpark at comcast.net >> >> <http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark> http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark > > > >