Re: Typographical niceties
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- Subject: [mg61636] Re: Typographical niceties
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve_usenet at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:39:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Typographical niceties are (mostly) unaffected by using Mathematica, but you
lose a few of the really fancy things that you get in TeX (for example).
As for cos^2 x, here is a familiar identity entered in an inline cell.
Cell[TextData[Cell[BoxData[
FormBox[
RowBox[{
RowBox[{
RowBox[{
SuperscriptBox["sin", "2"], "x"}], "+",
RowBox[{
SuperscriptBox["cos", "2"], "x"}]}], "=", "1"}],
TraditionalForm]]]], "Text"]
Steve Luttrell
"Ben Kovitz" <bkovitz at acm.org> wrote in message
news:djfno4$b2u$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>A question for the people who write theses, mathematical and scientific
> papers, etc. using Mathematica as their word processor:
>
> Do you give up traditional typographical niceties like having cos(x)^2
> rendered as cos^2 x with cos in roman font?
>
> It seems that Mathematica's "traditional" output is still somewhat
> non-traditional in that the total differentiation operator is not an
> ordinary roman d, functions are always rendered with parentheses,
> variables multiplied together like xy come out with a small space
> between them, etc. Or is there some easy way around this?
>
>
> Ben Kovitz
> Humboldt State University
>