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Re: Unnecessary parentheses around TagBox for MakeBoxes?

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  • Subject: [mg132218] Re: Unnecessary parentheses around TagBox for MakeBoxes?
  • From: Arturas Acus <arturas.acus at tfai.vu.lt>
  • Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:56:01 -0500 (EST)
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Dear Yi, 

just add additional RawBox[ ]

MakeBoxes[test, form_] := 
 TagBox[RowBox[{RowBox[{"test", "END"}]}], "myBox"]

Å t, 2014 01 18 05:01 -0500, Yi Wang raÅ¡Ä?:
> Hello,
> 
> I was trying to generate pretty output for some expressions. To assist interpretation, a TagBox is used.
> 
> A problem is that, Mathematica always insert unnecessary parentheses outside TagBox. For example,
> 
> MakeBoxes[test, form_] := TagBox[RowBox[{"test", "END"}], "myBox"]
> 
> In[] := 2 test
> Out[] = 2 (test END)
> 
> Here the TagBox already has clear boundary thus the parentheses shouldn't be necessary. Would it be possible to remove it?
> 
> Note that the "END" in this simple example will be replaced by a complicated structure (GridBox) in actually usage. Thus I cannot simply write "testEND" together as a single string. Also, the parentheses appears in TraditioinalForm, which further appear in all forms as TeXForm, etc.
> 





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