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How to figure out syntax for symbols?

Mathematica Asked on December 4, 2020

I’m new to Mathematica and am having a hard time figuring out how to type certain symbols when I read the documentation.

For example, in https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MatrixPropertyDistribution.html, the syntax is:

MatrixPropertyDistribution[expr,x mdist] where there is a symbol between x and mdist. I eventually figured out that the symbol could be interpreted as Distributed[x, mdist] or x [Distributed] mdist, but is there a function in Mathematica or some other website (like Detexify for Tex) that can translate the symbol to the thing you would actually need to type in Mathematica to get the symbol?

A similar issue I’m having right now is trying to define the usual complex inner product as is done in first example in the Applications section of this reference: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Conjugate.html. The issue is that the braces they have there is not the same as just the brackets on the keyboard corresponding to pressing Shift with "," or Shift with "." and I’d like to find out how to actually type these certain braces, so I can actually use the inner product.

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