Vector Notations
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg11116] Vector Notations
- From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker701@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:55:40 -0500
- Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
The help screen for the package Utilities`Notation` Options for
Notation, Symbolize and InfixNotation contains on three lines the
following under the section for creating TraditionalForm notations for
the vector calculus functions Div, Curl and the wrapper Vector:
Notation[ \[Del].a_ \[DoubleLongLeftRightArrow] Div[a_] ,
WorkingForm \[Rule] TraditionalForm]
Notation[ \[Del]\[Cross] a__ \[DoubleLongLeftRightArrow] Curl[a__] ,
WorkingForm \[Rule] TraditionalForm]
\!\(\*FormBox[
RowBox[{"Notation", "[", " ",
RowBox[{
RowBox[{
TagBox[\(a_\& \[RightVector] \),
NotationBoxTag,
Editable->True], " ", "\[DoubleLongLeftRightArrow]", " ",
TagBox[\(Vector[a_]\),
NotationBoxTag,
Editable->True]}], " ", ",",
\(WorkingForm\ \[Rule] \ TraditionalForm\)}], "]"}],
TraditionalForm]\)
When I tried to simply copy and paste and run the lines from the help
screen into the notebook, I get a 'Notation::"badExternalNotationBoxes'
error (the third line).
How do I get the Notation to work as called out in the help screen?
Lawrence