Re: copy/paste of exponents
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- Subject: [mg96439] Re: [mg96345] copy/paste of exponents
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:46:53 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
Turn off the formatting option which displays emoticons as graphics (what emoticons have to do with superscripts, I've got no idea). I believe this is where you'll find the option setting... Tools -> Options -> Display -> Formatting -> Plain Text Messages ...although I'm not a Thunderbird user, so that might be a bit off. This is a very aggravating problem, and if there were anything we could do from the Mathematica end to work around this, we would. Unfortunately, I think the only way to resolve the problem is to become a Thunderbird developer. Heck, displaying the superscripts wouldn't be absolutely horrible if they would just put the ^ character on the clipboard when they were copied! Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:34:18 -0500 (EST), dh wrote: > > > Hi, > > 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. > > Daniel