Re: Typesetting built-in functions without evaluating
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- Subject: [mg126404] Re: Typesetting built-in functions without evaluating
- From: Brentt <brenttnewman at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 04:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
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I was able to answer my own question. I discovered Defer. On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Brentt <brenttnewman at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I've been wrestling with mathematica trying to get it to typeset a > partial derivative in traditiaonal form without evaluating it. The closest > I've been able to come is having it output > > in[1]:=D[x,y] //TraditionalForm > out[2]:=Hold[ *typesetted partial derivative here* ] > > So I can get the unevaluated partial derivative notation to output, but I > can't do it without having the "Hold" mucking it up. How might one go about > this? I've tried all kinds of complicated schemes, and I'm sure I could > hack together some sort of output form that looks like a pd but that is > actually not. But I figure there has to be a simpler solution that I'm > missing. > > Also I've tried setting D to HoldAll. It doesn't work for some reason and > I'm not sure why? Evaluation order is still a dark art to me despite having > read that portion of the manual a few times (in my defense I'm not the > sharpest tool in the shed). >