Example of text annotation in
Mathematica
Math 3350, Fall 2008
Prof. Kevin Long
To annotate a Mathematica session with text, click on the line where you want to type. That opens up a new "cell." To be able to
type text in it, hit Alt-7.
Other alt keys set up other text styles such as titles and section headers, as shown below.
Alt-1 makes a big header
Alt-2 looks like this
Alt-3 looks like this
Alt-4 puts a line above the header
Alt-5 makes a bullet entry
Alt-6 makes a smaller bullet entry
Alt-7 makes ordinary text.
To enter math within a text cell, do ctrl-( to begin math entry and ctrl-) to go back to text.
(That’s the control key and shift-8 simultaneously to begin, control and shift-9 simultaneously to end). To make the annotation
look really good, see the Mathematica Documentation Center for instructions about how to write formulas like this one
fHxL="################
1+x2 e-x Ùxdx
. There are keyboard commands for entering special characters such as
!!!!!!
and
Π
, or alternatively
you can bring up the Math Input Palette which will let you select math symbols from a toolbar.
You can interleave text (like this) and calculations (like the next cell). If you don’t use any Alt-# when writing into a cell, the
contents are regarded as a mathematical expression
f@x_D=Sin@xDExp@-xD
ã-xsinHxL
Text can go between calculations as well
