On 21 April 2014 14:39, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What is the appeal of reStructureText?  Why is this an important
>> goal to you?
>
> The documentation especially the ++ stuff should be readable also
> in plain text form. So it's more for the ++ stuff that I want to go
> reStructuredText+Sphinx.

Do you mean changing the source code in .spad files, i.e. no longer
use a subset of LaTeX?  Do you find their contents difficult to read?
Can you give an example?

> I'm not so much in favour of the book format, since I think that
> only a few people are really printing the book.

Printing might be unlikely but there is still the possibility of
publishing an actual FriCAS book at one of the self-publishing sites
such as Lulu.  For example:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/timothy-daly/axiom-volume-1-tutorial/paperback/product-243128.html

There might be some advantage for people using FriCAS in courses etc.
if a hard copy could be purchased at regular book stores or on
Amazon.com.

>
> Most important to me is that the content of the book always present the
> latest release and can be referred to via URL.
>
>>> I've added a LaTeXFormat domain. Unfortunately, that is not perfect,
>>> since breqn.sty doesn't seem to like additional braces around a
>>> math formula. Then it simply doesn't break. So LaTeXFormat needs
>>> a complete rewrite.
>>
>> A complete re-write to remove extra braces?
>
> Well, if you have a better idea to remove needless groups...
> I cannon simply remove the first and the last brace, because I might
> have somthing like "{...}{...}".
>

Can you give an example that produces extra braces?  I would like to
help analyze the problem but the examples I tried so far do not
produce extra braces when I look at the output from )set output tex
on.

>>> What is worse, some output in the .htex files LEXTRIPK REGSET
>>> XPR ZDSOLVE is to long for breqn to swallow.
>
>> That is very unfortunate.
>
> No, not really. These things were not in the original book. So they just
> have to be more carefully crafted so that the output will not be too
> long. That should be doable. Nobody is interested to read a book with a
> 2-page formula. What bothers me a bit more is overly long toplevel
> \frac. I have a workaround, but it's ugly and not always working.
>

OK.  But a general solution for breaking FriCAS TeX/LaTeX output might
still be very desirable, for example for use on axiom-wiki.

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