TraditionalForm vs OutputForm display of negative signs
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg121473] TraditionalForm vs OutputForm display of negative signs
- From: D Yong <darrylyong at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:48:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com
Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get TraditionalForm to change the way it displays the negative sign in certain situations? Here is a transcript of what I mean: =========Using TraditionalForm as default output========= In[1]:= -x^2 y - x y^2 Out[1]= x^2 (-y)-x y^2 In[2]:= -x^2 y + x y^2 Out[2]= x y^2-x^2 y In[3]:= -x^2 y Out[3]= -x^2 y In[4]:= -2 x^2 y - x y^2 Out[4]= -2 x^2 y-x y^2 =========Using StandardForm as default output========= In[1]:= -x^2 y - x y^2 Out[1]= -x^2 y - x y^2 In[2]:= -x^2 y + x y^2 Out[2]= -x^2 y + x y^2 In[3]:= -x^2 y Out[3]= -x^2 y In[4]:= -2 x^2 y - x y^2 Out[4]= -2 x^2 y - x y^2 I prefer to use TraditionalForm as it looks better, but I don't like the way it handles the negative sign in this particular situation. (Compare Output #1 above.) If I use StandardForm as the default output and try to convert Out[1] to TraditionalForm, it immediately converts to x^2(-y)-xy^2. Any thoughts? Thanks, Darryl