Re: copy/paste of exponents
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg96450] Re: copy/paste of exponents
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:48:55 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- References: <gn11fj$80p$1@smc.vnet.net>
In article <gn11fj$80p$1 at smc.vnet.net>, dh <dh at metrohm.com> wrote: > I think I am not the only one who has the annoying problem of copying > formulas from Thunderbird and pasting it into Mathematica. All exponents > (carets) are thereby lost. The problems comes from the fact, that > Thunderbird interprets the caret and displays superscripts. > > A workaround is to use the menu: View/Message Source, where the carets > are shown. > > However, it should be possible to configure Thunderbird to not interpret > carets. But I failed to find out how and would appreciate if anybody > knows it. Hi Daniel, Goto menu Preferences -> Display -> Formatting -> Plain Text Messages -> from there be sure to uncheck the option "Display emoticons as graphics" Best regards, --Jean-Marc