Re: Errors in Copying and Pasting Heads of Expressions
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- Subject: [mg41448] Re: Errors in Copying and Pasting Heads of Expressions
- From: "Dr. Wolfgang Hintze" <weh at snafu.de>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 03:26:31 -0400 (EDT)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
David, I'm using Mathematica 4.0 on Windows98 and couldn't find the effect you mentioned. I got Binomial as output without any error messages. Perhaps your problem has to do with the options of your notebook. Remenber that recently I posted my problems with a floating notebook (always on top). Having set WindowFloating globally I was not able to copy & paste at all. I'm having some difficulties in using copy & paste between notebooks and other applications, as e.g. mail. I reported that in this newsgroup and I was helped, at least partially. Wolfgang David Park wrote: > I have been obtaining a strange error when I copy and paste an expression > Head under 4.2.1 on Windows98. I wonder if other users obtain the same > error? > > Below I have pasted a small Notebook expression that illustrates the error. > When I copied and pasted the head of Binomial[n,m] (as a simple random > example) it seemed to be pasted in as a TraditionalForm, but did not > evaluate properly. If I copy and paste the entire expression there is no > problem. I am not using any TraditionalForm and this was done in a fresh > notebook. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > > > Notebook[{ > > Cell[CellGroupData[{ > Cell["Copying and Pasting Error", "Title"], > > Cell[CellGroupData[{ > > Cell[BoxData[ > \(Binomial[n, \ m]\)], "Input"], > > Cell[BoxData[ > \(Binomial[n, m]\)], "Output"] > }, Open ]], > > Cell["\<\ > The following was copied and pasted from the input statement above. \ > It looks like it is in TraditionalForm. It doesn't evaluate \ > properly.\ > \>", "Text"], > > Cell[CellGroupData[{ > > Cell[BoxData[ > \(InputForm\`Binomial\)], "Input", > FormatType->StandardForm], > > Cell[BoxData[ > \(Syntax::"sntxi" \(\(:\)\(\ \)\) > "Incomplete expression; more input is needed.\!\(\"\"\)"\)], \ > "Message"] > }, Open ]], > > Cell["If it is simply typed in there is no problem.", "Text"], > > Cell[CellGroupData[{ > > Cell[BoxData[ > \(Binomial\)], "Input"], > > Cell[BoxData[ > \(Binomial\)], "Output"] > }, Open ]] > }, Open ]] > }, > FrontEndVersion->"4.2 for Microsoft Windows", > ScreenRectangle->{{0, 1280}, {0, 943}}, > WindowSize->{494, 740}, > WindowMargins->{{0, Automatic}, {Automatic, 0}} > ] > > > > >