What happened to StandardForm?

Kevin J. McCann

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May 25, 2009, 6:16:53 AM5/25/09

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I used to be able to cut and paste a newsgroup example, do a ctl-shift-N
and turn it into StandardForm. This key stroke sequence seems to have
vanished. Any ideas?

Kevin

David Bailey

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May 26, 2009, 5:15:15 PM5/26/09

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It works for me, using Mathematica 7.0 on Windows. I wonder if you are
actually encountering this issue with Thunderbird:

x circumflex 2 (* where you use the ^ operator! *)

prints using normal superscript notation, which looks great until you
copy and paste it into Mathematica, when it comes out as x2.

If this is your actual problem, a partial solution is to view the
message source and copy and paste from that.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk

John Fultz

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May 26, 2009, 5:15:37 PM5/26/09

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Kevin J. McCann wrote:
> I used to be able to cut and paste a newsgroup example, do a ctl-shift-N
> and turn it into StandardForm. This key stroke sequence seems to have
> vanished. Any ideas?
>
> Kevin

It should be working in any version of Mathematica (and it does for me
under Windows 7.0.1). Does it still show up in the menu? What platform
are you on?

Sincerely,

John Fultz
User Interface Group
jfu...@wolfram.com

David Bailey

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May 26, 2009, 7:41:42 PM5/26/09

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John Fultz

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May 26, 2009, 7:42:03 PM5/26/09

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Kevin J. McCann wrote:
> I used to be able to cut and paste a newsgroup example, do a ctl-shift-N
> and turn it into StandardForm. This key stroke sequence seems to have
> vanished. Any ideas?
>
> Kevin

It should be working in any version of Mathematica (and it does for me

Sjoerd C. de Vries

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May 27, 2009, 5:04:32 PM5/27/09

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If I cut and paste it is already in StandardForm

Cheers -- Sjoerd

In[172]:= $Version

Out[172]= "7.0 for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) (February 18, 2009)"

John Fultz

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May 27, 2009, 5:05:58 PM5/27/09

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On Tue, 26 May 2009 05:08:57 -0400 (EDT), David Bailey wrote:
> Kevin J. McCann wrote:
>
>> I used to be able to cut and paste a newsgroup example, do a ctl-shift-N
>> and turn it into StandardForm. This key stroke sequence seems to have
>> vanished. Any ideas?
>>
>> Kevin
>>

> It works for me, using Mathematica 7.0 on Windows. I wonder if you are
> actually encountering this issue with Thunderbird:
>
> x circumflex 2 (* where you use the ^ operator! *)
>
> prints using normal superscript notation, which looks great until you
> copy and paste it into Mathematica, when it comes out as x2.
>
> If this is your actual problem, a partial solution is to view the
> message source and copy and paste from that.
>
> David Bailey
> http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk

Incidentally, this problem can be fully worked around by turning off the
display of emoticons in the Thunderbird preferences. The emoticon support
also affects the superscript behavior.

Sincerely,

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

David Bailey

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May 28, 2009, 7:33:59 PM5/28/09

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Well yes, but I like smiley faces, and it is, of course, easier to read
maths in an e-mail with it left on.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk