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From: pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola)
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Subject: Interfacing with the user question.
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Date: 3 Dec 89 02:42:11 GMT
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My problem is that, after doing some symbolic manipulations, the answer from
the operations is sometimes longer than the limit of characters allowed in a
field.

Now, the user is expecting to see the answer in a specific field, specially when
dealing with matrices.  If the answer doesn't fit in the space allocated, what
would be a way of showing the answer to the user?

---------      ---------       --------
|field 1 |    | field 2 |     |field 3 |
---------      ---------       --------

How would you handle an "overflow" on field 2?

If anybody faced this problem before and found a solution please let me now.
Pablo
pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu 
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