Equation Wrapping

[DS_10024912]

As per the original Post. 

I believe I have the premium version of Mathcad PTC Prime 9 - but "ctrl" + "enter" never worked for me either.    Actually, as far as I know, I have Professional version of Mathcad PTC Prime.  M > About > just says I have Verison Prime 9.0.0.0.  I pay something like $600 a year for the license. 

Anyway "ctrl" + "enter" doesn't work for me for whatever reason.

[Werner_E · Accepted solution]

The possibilities of equation breaking are limited - its only available when inputting an expression, not for the output/evaluations of results.

The keyboard shortcuts have changed going from from Mathcad to Prime - so Ctrl-Enter isn't doing the job anymore. Equation breaks are now allowed for any of the four basic arithmetic operations and the shortcuts are Ctrl-Shift-+, etc.

See also the help info

https://support.ptc.com/help/mathcad/r9.0/en/index.html#page/PTC_Mathcad_Help/keyboard_shortcuts_for_equation_break_operators.html

https://support.ptc.com/help/mathcad/r9.0/en/#page/PTC_Mathcad_Help/about_equation_breaking.html#

[DS_10024912]

This is helpful, but as you've said - limited.  I would like to see a more generalized ability to wrap equations (not limited to the four basic operators).  For example, wrapping the output of a symbolic solve when it gets long would be nice.   Equation wrapping seems like a feature everyone would need and enjoy having.  

[Werner_E]

Fully agreed on. But there are so many features we miss in Prime and would enjoy having - and most of them were already implemented in real Mathcad more than 20 years ago (equation wrapping is not one of those features - we already missed that feature in real Mathcad, too).

[ChrisKaswer]

We are able to break equations in Mathcad 15 (but only with addition "+"):

[Werner_E]

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@ChrisKaswer wrote:

We are able to break equations in Mathcad 15 (but only with addition "+"):

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Yes, thats what I wrote in my first answer in this thread where I pointed out that in Prime the keyboard shortcuts have changed because line breaks can be done for all basic arithmetic operations now.

But thats sure not going far enough as we also would need line breaks not that limited and also line breaks for the output of numeric and especially symbolic evaluations - maybe similar to text regions which automatically rearrange when we resize the region. This was already a long standing wish at the times of real Mathcad and eve more applies to the current Prime.

[DS_10024912]

Is there a way to submit ideas for future versions of PTC Mathcad?

[LucMeekes]

There is.

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad-Ideas/idb-p/PTCMathcadIdeas

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Luc