Re: DifferenitalD vs CapitalDifferenitalD
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- Subject: [mg87763] Re: DifferenitalD vs CapitalDifferenitalD
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:14:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
this is a bug, add
MakeBoxes[DifferentialD[x_], fmt_] :=
RowBox[{"\[DifferentialD]", ToBoxes[x, fmt]}]
Regards
Jens
Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> The documentation for DifferenitalD states:
>
> DifferenitalD[x] displays as dx , where instead of d appears the
> smybol entered as "esc dd esc" (without the spaces). Yet when I
> enter DifferentialD[x] and evaluate I get back DifferenitalD[x] (not
> "esc dd esc x ").
>
> The documentation for CapitalDifferentialD seems identical to that for
> DifferentialD. Yet when I enter CapitalDifferentialD[x] I get Dx
> where D is the symbol entered as "esc DD esc".
>
> Moreover, "esc dd esc x" evaluates to DifferenitalD[x] but "esc DD esc
> x" evaluates to "esc DD esc x".
>
> It is all so confusing I feel like giving up on Mathematica
> typesetting altogether. Can anyone explain what is going on here?
>
> This is with
>
> $Version
> "6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (March 13, 2008)"
> $ReleaseNumber
> 2
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
>