Re: How to print TraditionalForm without evaluation
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- Subject: [mg92635] Re: How to print TraditionalForm without evaluation
- From: Bob F <deepyogurt at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 06:35:11 -0400 (EDT)
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Serych Jakub wrote: > I want to write notebook which prints simple integration examples with > results for the students. > Something like: > > ex1 = (1 - 3*x^3 + 2*x^5)/(4*x^3); > ex2 = (-5*x^(1/4) + (x^2)^(4/3))/x^(3/2); > > Grid[{ > Table[ > TraditionalForm[Integrate[Symbol["ex" <> ToString[nr]], x]], {nr, 1, 2}], > (* do not integrate this *) > Table[ > TraditionalForm[Integrate[Symbol["ex" <> ToString[nr]], x]], {nr, 1, 2}]}, > (* integrate this *) > Frame -> All, ItemStyle -> Directive[FontSize -> 18, Bold]] > > (there will be much more examples ex3,ex4, etc.) > > This works nice, but I need to tell Mathematica not to Integrate in the first > row of the table - examples (only in the second one - results). Is there any > possibility to suppress the evaluation of the Integral in the first row of > the grid and just print the symbol of Integral and the TraditionalForm of the > example behind it? > > May be this is a newbie kind of question, but I have spent lot of time on it, > and I cannot solve it. > > Thanks in advance for any help > > Jakub Jakub, One way is to just leave off the Integrate[], and prepend an Integral sign to the "TraditionalForm" string, ie ex1 = (1 - 3*x^3 + 2*x^5)/(4*x^3); ex2 = (-5*x^(1/4) + (x^2)^(4/3))/x^(3/2); Grid[{Table[ "\[Integral]" TraditionalForm[Symbol["ex" <> ToString[nr]], x], {nr, 1, 2}],(*do not integrate this*) Table[TraditionalForm[ Integrate[Symbol["ex" <> ToString[nr]], x]], {nr, 1, 2}]},(*integrate this*)Frame -> All, ItemStyle -> Directive[FontSize -> 18, Bold]] -Bob Freeman