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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

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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

share|improve this question

edited 2 hours ago

Carl Woll

73.6k398192

asked 3 hours ago

Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman

25417

$endgroup$

add a comment | 

$begingroup$

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

share|improve this question

edited 2 hours ago

Carl Woll

73.6k398192

asked 3 hours ago

Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman

25417

$endgroup$

CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[

    "!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",

    "Input",

    ShowStringCharacters->False

]

share|improve this question

edited 2 hours ago

Carl Woll

73.6k398192

asked 3 hours ago

Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman

25417

share|improve this question

edited 2 hours ago

Carl Woll

73.6k398192

asked 3 hours ago

Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman

25417

edited 2 hours ago

Carl Woll

73.6k398192

edited 2 hours ago

Carl Woll

73.6k398192

asked 3 hours ago

Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman

25417

asked 3 hours ago

Kevin AusmanKevin Ausman

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.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 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.
  $endgroup$
  – Kevin Ausman
  2 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
  2 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.
  $endgroup$
  – Kevin Ausman
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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5

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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.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 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
  2 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
  2 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
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

5

$begingroup$

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.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 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
  2 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
  2 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
  2 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.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

Carl WollCarl Woll

73.6k398192

$endgroup$

CellPrint @ ExpressionCell[

    "!(*SubscriptBox[(H), (2)])O (H)",

    "Input",

    ShowStringCharacters->False,

    ShowAutoStyles->False

]

share|improve this answer

answered 2 hours ago

Carl WollCarl Woll

73.6k398192

answered 2 hours ago

Carl WollCarl Woll

73.6k398192

answered 2 hours ago

Carl WollCarl Woll

73.6k398192