copy/paste of exponents

dh

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Feb 12, 2009, 6:34:11 AM2/12/09

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Hi,

I think I am not the only one who has the annoying problem of copying

formulas from Thunderbird and pasting it into Mathematica. All exponents

(carets) are thereby lost. The problems comes from the fact, that

Thunderbird interprets the caret and displays superscripts.

A workaround is to use the menu: View/Message Source, where the carets

are shown.

However, it should be possible to configure Thunderbird to not interpret

carets. But I failed to find out how and would appreciate if anybody

knows it.

Daniel

Helen Read

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Feb 13, 2009, 3:43:31 AM2/13/09

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Go to Tools, Options, Display, and turn off "Display emoticons as graphics".

--
Helen Read
University of Vermont

John Fultz

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Feb 13, 2009, 3:46:34 AM2/13/09

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Turn off the formatting option which displays emoticons as graphics (what
emoticons have to do with superscripts, I've got no idea). I believe this is
where you'll find the option setting...

Tools -> Options -> Display -> Formatting -> Plain Text Messages

...although I'm not a Thunderbird user, so that might be a bit off.

This is a very aggravating problem, and if there were anything we could do from
the Mathematica end to work around this, we would. Unfortunately, I think the
only way to resolve the problem is to become a Thunderbird developer. Heck,
displaying the superscripts wouldn't be absolutely horrible if they would just
put the ^ character on the clipboard when they were copied!

Sincerely,

John Fultz
jfu...@wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:34:18 -0500 (EST), dh wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I think I am not the only one who has the annoying problem of copying
>
> formulas from Thunderbird and pasting it into Mathematica. All exponents
>
> (carets) are thereby lost. The problems comes from the fact, that
>
> Thunderbird interprets the caret and displays superscripts.
>
> A workaround is to use the menu: View/Message Source, where the carets
>
> are shown.
>
> However, it should be possible to configure Thunderbird to not interpret
>
> carets. But I failed to find out how and would appreciate if anybody
>
> knows it.
>

> Daniel

Albert Retey

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Feb 13, 2009, 3:47:06 AM2/13/09

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Hi,

> However, it should be possible to configure Thunderbird to not interpret
>
> carets. But I failed to find out how and would appreciate if anybody
>
> knows it.

I have a german version installed, so I don't know what exactly the
option is called in th english version. I think this is controlled by
the setting whether emoticons should be graphically displayed or not. If
you switch that off, the carets should be shown instead of superscripts.
Note that you might need to switch to another message and back to see
the result...

hth,

albert

Jean-Marc Gulliet

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Feb 13, 2009, 3:48:32 AM2/13/09

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Hi Daniel,

Goto menu Preferences -> Display -> Formatting -> Plain Text Messages ->
from there be sure to uncheck the option "Display emoticons as graphics"

Best regards,
--Jean-Marc

Carl Woll

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Feb 13, 2009, 3:48:53 AM2/13/09

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dh wrote:

>Hi,

>
>I think I am not the only one who has the annoying problem of copying
>
>formulas from Thunderbird and pasting it into Mathematica. All exponents
>
>(carets) are thereby lost. The problems comes from the fact, that
>
>Thunderbird interprets the caret and displays superscripts.
>
>A workaround is to use the menu: View/Message Source, where the carets
>
>are shown.
>
>However, it should be possible to configure Thunderbird to not interpret
>
>carets. But I failed to find out how and would appreciate if anybody
>
>knows it.
>

>Daniel
>
>
>
>
>
Uncheck "Display emoticons as graphics" in the "Display" tab of the options.