On Thursday 02 August 2007 11:03:09 am Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Darren Dale wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 August 2007 10:42:17 am John Hunter wrote:
> >> On 8/2/07, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> I don't know if we ever reached consensus on how to specify math text
> >>> vs. regular text. I agree with Eric that it's down to two options:
> >>> using a new kw argument (probably format="math" to be most
> >>> future-proof) or Math('string'). I don't think I have enough
> >>> "historical perspective" to really make the call but I do have a
> >>> concern about the second option that it may be confusing depending on
> >>> how "Math" is imported. (It may have to be pylab.Math in some
> >>> instances but not in others.) But I don't have a strong objection.
> >>>
> >>> Any last objections to going with the new keyword argument?
> >>
> >> I'm +1 on the kwarg approach -- it seems most consistent with our other
> >> usage.
> >
> > Maybe the keyword should be format="TeX"? Or texformatting=True? Maybe it
> > would be appropriate to have the kwarg default to None, and if None
> > reference an rcoption like text.texformatting? That might be the least
> > disruptive all around.
>
> I think format="TeX" may be a bit misleading, since it uses something
> TeX-like, but not really TeX (as the usetex stuff does). That said, I
> don't really have a better suggestion ;)
>
> The idea also is that in the future this could support other values,
> e.g. format="html" might support "<b>bold</b>" for instance, so
> texformatting=True would be less extensible overall.
How about markup="TeX" then?
> And yes, having a rcoption default seems like it could be handy.
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