> From time to time I am pasting LaTeX output from FriCAS to papers.
> That is clearly important use case.
OK. But why do we have the latex function then?
Anyway. Let's stick to TexFormat.
Would you be satisfied by letting TexFormat generate special
environments like, for example,
\begin{LaTeXMath}{4} % 4 is the step number of the input/output
\begin{Matrix}{5} % 5 is number of columns
a & b & c & d & e \\
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5
\end{Matrix}
\end{LaTeXMath}
and have a small .sty file (that I will provide)
that maps the commands coming from TexFormat to the respective wish of
the user. I.e. I would provide example
texformatlatex.sty --> maps to plain LaTeX2e
texformatamsmath.sty --> maps to LaTeX2e+amsmath
texformatmathtools.sty --> maps to LaTeX2e+mathtools
All the respective definitions will be switched on at
\begin{LaTeXMath}{4}
and switched off at
\end{LaTeXMath}
so that they do not interfere with any other stuff defined elsewhere.
That would allow users to even change some preferences. For example,
currently a*b results in "a\: b", but a user might want to have
"a\cdot b". So it would be better to generate "\tftimes{a}{b}" and have
\def\tftimes#1#2{#1\: #2} in the .sty file.
What do you think about this direction? I.e. most stuff would be default
LaTeX2e, but some things, like array would come as special things that
need a few lines of .sty definitions.
Ralf
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