On 18 October 2014 19:33, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > I find the whole idea of showing TeX rendered output impractical.
I don't understand why you say that. It has been the primary display format on axiom-wiki for a long time and systems like Sage use it in their web-based notebook interface, etc. A lot of systems these days are using MathJax javascript-based rendering of LaTeX in the browser. I think it would be very desirable to be able to use MathJax in axiom-wiki instead of png images. I worry however that the new tex format is actually making that more difficult. Have you tried using MathJax with the new tex format yet? > There is the problem of line breaking True, but it seems to be (mostly) solvable. > and one cannot cut&paste (part of) the output. Honestly I cannot think of any situation in which I would want to cut&paste part of the output. One usually does not cut&paste from rendered formats such as dvi or pdf back into LaTeX. In axiom-wiki the FriCAS-generated LaTeX is available in the HTML source as the "alt-text" associated with each rendered image and this could in principle be cut&paste into a LaTeX document. If you are talking about cut&paste FriCAS output back into FriCAS as input, that is a very different (semantic) problem that has little to do with the rendering of the output. Instead of trying to do this, I think it is usually better to manipulate the expression using FriCAS commands to obtain the desired sub-expressions. > > (La)TeX output seems only relevant to me, if one wants to include an > expression in a paper or book. But then there is still a chance to break > overly long lines by hand. > > Otherwise the output cell should simply be horizontally scrollable. > Horizontally scrolling overly long lines is a good idea but I an not sure how to achieve this when using LaTeX to generate png files. In LaTeX I must specify a page width and something oversize will simply be cut-off. Perhaps it is possible to set a very wide page, but I would worry about the storage required for the extraction of desired part of the generated image for each page. Currently axiom-wiki renders all the images required for a given wiki page as a LaTeX document with one image per page. This way LaTeX is run and all images are generated at once when the page is saved (or previewed). Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
