Prevent Live Script From Rearranging Input

I'm trying to use a Live Script to manipulate a couple of long equations symbolically.

Unfortunately, whenever I enter an equation, the script rearranges my input (changes the order of terms, divides through by a common denominator, ect). While the resulting expression is mathematically equivalent to my input, it's very tedious to error check my code. I have to perform a bunch of algebra by hand on the expression produced by the Live Script to make sure that it's the same as my input expression.

Is there a way to prevent the Live Script from rearranging my input (i.e. preseve the order of terms and the grouping of terms)?

For example:

syms a b c d
a = ((c + d)*3 - b*2)/8

produces the output:

I'd like the displayed expression to preserve the grouping and arangement of the input.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

This is not possible with the MATLAB interface to the MuPad symbolic engine. The MuPad engine itself has a facility to "hold" an expression https://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/mupad_ref/hold.html but the MATLAB interface does not know about that and makes no attempt to respect it and does not know how to format it.