Fixing different display colors within string
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My question below is my attempt to reduce a problem I am having to the simplest possible version that will show the error I am trying to fix. I recognize that the coding looks tortured, and I will provide at the end an explanation for why I am doing it this way, but hopefully we can just focus on the particular behavior in my abstracted example.
(copyable version below)
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False
]
Why is the "O (g)" black and the rest of the string grey? And how do I change it so that it all displays as black?
Background: This is a follow-up to this thread. I am using the strings as a way to define palette-selectable labels that preserve non-Mathematica-standard notation that I can then use with the Notation package to associate this alternate notation (both input and output) with more standard symbols that can be used internally. I need the label to be in a string so that the notational form is maintained without parsing once it is interpreted by a ParsedBoxWrapper@TemplateBox, and I use a custom style to suppress the display of those quotation marks.
Edit: I originally had this including """<>string<>""", but have since discovered that the extra quotes aren't necessary to make the problem happen.
string-manipulation display
edited 4 hours ago
Carl Woll
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asked 4 hours ago
Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman
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My question below is my attempt to reduce a problem I am having to the simplest possible version that will show the error I am trying to fix. I recognize that the coding looks tortured, and I will provide at the end an explanation for why I am doing it this way, but hopefully we can just focus on the particular behavior in my abstracted example.
(copyable version below)
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False
]
Why is the "O (g)" black and the rest of the string grey? And how do I change it so that it all displays as black?
Background: This is a follow-up to this thread. I am using the strings as a way to define palette-selectable labels that preserve non-Mathematica-standard notation that I can then use with the Notation package to associate this alternate notation (both input and output) with more standard symbols that can be used internally. I need the label to be in a string so that the notational form is maintained without parsing once it is interpreted by a ParsedBoxWrapper@TemplateBox, and I use a custom style to suppress the display of those quotation marks.
Edit: I originally had this including """<>string<>""", but have since discovered that the extra quotes aren't necessary to make the problem happen.
string-manipulation display
edited 4 hours ago
Carl Woll
73.6k398192
asked 4 hours ago
Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman
25417
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$begingroup$
My question below is my attempt to reduce a problem I am having to the simplest possible version that will show the error I am trying to fix. I recognize that the coding looks tortured, and I will provide at the end an explanation for why I am doing it this way, but hopefully we can just focus on the particular behavior in my abstracted example.
(copyable version below)
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False
]
Why is the "O (g)" black and the rest of the string grey? And how do I change it so that it all displays as black?
Background: This is a follow-up to this thread. I am using the strings as a way to define palette-selectable labels that preserve non-Mathematica-standard notation that I can then use with the Notation package to associate this alternate notation (both input and output) with more standard symbols that can be used internally. I need the label to be in a string so that the notational form is maintained without parsing once it is interpreted by a ParsedBoxWrapper@TemplateBox, and I use a custom style to suppress the display of those quotation marks.
Edit: I originally had this including """<>string<>""", but have since discovered that the extra quotes aren't necessary to make the problem happen.
string-manipulation display
edited 4 hours ago
Carl Woll
73.6k398192
asked 4 hours ago
Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman
25417
$endgroup$
My question below is my attempt to reduce a problem I am having to the simplest possible version that will show the error I am trying to fix. I recognize that the coding looks tortured, and I will provide at the end an explanation for why I am doing it this way, but hopefully we can just focus on the particular behavior in my abstracted example.
(copyable version below)
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False
]
Why is the "O (g)" black and the rest of the string grey? And how do I change it so that it all displays as black?
Background: This is a follow-up to this thread. I am using the strings as a way to define palette-selectable labels that preserve non-Mathematica-standard notation that I can then use with the Notation package to associate this alternate notation (both input and output) with more standard symbols that can be used internally. I need the label to be in a string so that the notational form is maintained without parsing once it is interpreted by a ParsedBoxWrapper@TemplateBox, and I use a custom style to suppress the display of those quotation marks.
Edit: I originally had this including """<>string<>""", but have since discovered that the extra quotes aren't necessary to make the problem happen.
string-manipulation display
string-manipulation display
edited 4 hours ago
Carl Woll
73.6k398192
asked 4 hours ago
Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman
25417
edited 4 hours ago
Carl Woll
73.6k398192
asked 4 hours ago
Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman
25417
edited 4 hours ago
Carl Woll
73.6k398192
edited 4 hours ago
Carl Woll
73.6k398192
edited 4 hours ago
Carl Woll
73.6k398192
73.6k398192
asked 4 hours ago
Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman
25417
asked 4 hours ago
Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman
25417
asked 4 hours ago
Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman
25417
25417
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Short answer: You need to turn off auto styles:
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False,
ShowAutoStyles->False
]
The issue is that your string, inside of an "Input" cell is not interpreted as a string, it is interpreted as an expression, and so the default syntax coloring happens.
answered 4 hours ago
Carl WollCarl Woll
73.6k398192
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Magnificent! Thank you! It seems that this fix does not correct a related problem that I assumed would be automatically fixed when the coloration-problem was corrected. I will update my question with an example of that issue.
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– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
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Actually, I will add my new question as a separate question rather than editing this one, since it looks like it is unrelated. Thank you.
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– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
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I guess the bigger question might be whether or not there is a way to force a string in an input cell to be interpreted as a string rather than interpreted as an expression, because that might separately solve both this question and the other one that I recently added.
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– Kevin Ausman
3 hours ago
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Short answer: You need to turn off auto styles:
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False,
ShowAutoStyles->False
]
The issue is that your string, inside of an "Input" cell is not interpreted as a string, it is interpreted as an expression, and so the default syntax coloring happens.
answered 4 hours ago
Carl WollCarl Woll
73.6k398192
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Magnificent! Thank you! It seems that this fix does not correct a related problem that I assumed would be automatically fixed when the coloration-problem was corrected. I will update my question with an example of that issue.
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– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
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Actually, I will add my new question as a separate question rather than editing this one, since it looks like it is unrelated. Thank you.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
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I guess the bigger question might be whether or not there is a way to force a string in an input cell to be interpreted as a string rather than interpreted as an expression, because that might separately solve both this question and the other one that I recently added.
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– Kevin Ausman
3 hours ago
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Short answer: You need to turn off auto styles:
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False,
ShowAutoStyles->False
]
The issue is that your string, inside of an "Input" cell is not interpreted as a string, it is interpreted as an expression, and so the default syntax coloring happens.
answered 4 hours ago
Carl WollCarl Woll
73.6k398192
$endgroup$
$begingroup$
Magnificent! Thank you! It seems that this fix does not correct a related problem that I assumed would be automatically fixed when the coloration-problem was corrected. I will update my question with an example of that issue.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
Actually, I will add my new question as a separate question rather than editing this one, since it looks like it is unrelated. Thank you.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
I guess the bigger question might be whether or not there is a way to force a string in an input cell to be interpreted as a string rather than interpreted as an expression, because that might separately solve both this question and the other one that I recently added.
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– Kevin Ausman
3 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Short answer: You need to turn off auto styles:
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False,
ShowAutoStyles->False
]
The issue is that your string, inside of an "Input" cell is not interpreted as a string, it is interpreted as an expression, and so the default syntax coloring happens.
answered 4 hours ago
Carl WollCarl Woll
73.6k398192
$endgroup$
Short answer: You need to turn off auto styles:
CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[
"!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",
"Input",
ShowStringCharacters->False,
ShowAutoStyles->False
]
The issue is that your string, inside of an "Input" cell is not interpreted as a string, it is interpreted as an expression, and so the default syntax coloring happens.
answered 4 hours ago
Carl WollCarl Woll
73.6k398192
answered 4 hours ago
Carl WollCarl Woll
73.6k398192
answered 4 hours ago
Carl WollCarl Woll
73.6k398192
answered 4 hours ago
Carl WollCarl Woll
73.6k398192
73.6k398192
$begingroup$
Magnificent! Thank you! It seems that this fix does not correct a related problem that I assumed would be automatically fixed when the coloration-problem was corrected. I will update my question with an example of that issue.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
Actually, I will add my new question as a separate question rather than editing this one, since it looks like it is unrelated. Thank you.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
I guess the bigger question might be whether or not there is a way to force a string in an input cell to be interpreted as a string rather than interpreted as an expression, because that might separately solve both this question and the other one that I recently added.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
3 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Magnificent! Thank you! It seems that this fix does not correct a related problem that I assumed would be automatically fixed when the coloration-problem was corrected. I will update my question with an example of that issue.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
Actually, I will add my new question as a separate question rather than editing this one, since it looks like it is unrelated. Thank you.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
I guess the bigger question might be whether or not there is a way to force a string in an input cell to be interpreted as a string rather than interpreted as an expression, because that might separately solve both this question and the other one that I recently added.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
3 hours ago
$begingroup$
Magnificent! Thank you! It seems that this fix does not correct a related problem that I assumed would be automatically fixed when the coloration-problem was corrected. I will update my question with an example of that issue.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
Magnificent! Thank you! It seems that this fix does not correct a related problem that I assumed would be automatically fixed when the coloration-problem was corrected. I will update my question with an example of that issue.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
Actually, I will add my new question as a separate question rather than editing this one, since it looks like it is unrelated. Thank you.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
Actually, I will add my new question as a separate question rather than editing this one, since it looks like it is unrelated. Thank you.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
4 hours ago
$begingroup$
I guess the bigger question might be whether or not there is a way to force a string in an input cell to be interpreted as a string rather than interpreted as an expression, because that might separately solve both this question and the other one that I recently added.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
3 hours ago
$begingroup$
I guess the bigger question might be whether or not there is a way to force a string in an input cell to be interpreted as a string rather than interpreted as an expression, because that might separately solve both this question and the other one that I recently added.
$endgroup$
– Kevin Ausman
3 hours ago
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