Re: making a Module or Column that will print lines interspersed with plots
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- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 01:20:37 -0500 (EST)
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For the record, a semi-colon does _not_ in itself suppress output.
Rather, a semi-colon separates the constituent expressions of a compound
expression. When, however, there is a terminal semi-colon, the compound
expression is treated as if there were a Null after that semi-colon. And
Null returns no output. Hence the behavior is _as if_ the terminal
semi-colon suppresses the output of the preceding expression.
On Feb 3, 2013, at 8:24 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
> This sort of thing has been asked about and answered in this newsgroup
many times since Mathematica 6 appeared. The magic cure is to wrap each
graphic with Print:
>
> macro := Module[{j},
> Print["something"];
> Print[plota];
> Print["something else"];
> Print[plotb]
> ]
>
> (Pretty-printing there just for structural clarity.)
>
> And since you define "macro" with SetDelayed ( := ), there's no need
for the semicolon you have terminating the whole piece of code.
>
> Explanation: in Mathematica <= 5, the appearance of a graphic
display was a side-effect; in Mathematica >= 6, the graphic display is
the direct output as result. This implies that if you have some graphic
object plotObject and use it in the form "plotObject;" with a trailing
semi-colon, that just as with any other Mathematica expression, this
suppresses the output. Hence when you are using a semi-colon to separate
the component expressions of a compound expression -- as you are doing
inside a Module -- then you must do something to counteract the effect
of such a trailing semi-colon. And Print does that.
>
> On Feb 3, 2013, at 2:46 AM, Bruce Shore <bwshore at me.com> wrote:
>
>> I run Mathematica 7. I have some legacy notebooks, from Mathematica 5, in which there were Modules such as
>>
>> macro :=Module[{j},
>> Print["something"];
>> plota;
>> Print["something else"];
>> plotb
>> ];
>>
>> where plota and plotb were plots. Now with Mathematica 7 the
semicolons prevent the plots from showing up. Show[plota]; has the same
problem. The semicolons, which are needed in a Module, prevent the
plotting. I have tried using a Column or a Graphics column,
>>
>> macro:=Column[{
>> Print["something"],
>> plota,
>> Print["something else"],
>> plotb
>> }]
>>
>> and this does the printing and the plotting, but all the printing
comes at the beginning and all the plots come after that. I really want
the printing to come in between the plots, in the order that I show
them. How can I do this?
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> Bruce Shore
>> bwshore at me.com
>> (925) 455 0627
>> --------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Murray Eisenberg
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>
>
>
>
>
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Murray Eisenberg
murray at math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- From: Bruce Shore <bwshore@me.com>
- Re: making a Module or Column that will print lines interspersed with plots
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
- making a Module or Column that will print lines interspersed with plots