Hi Mike et al,
Thanks for the reply.
2008/12/15 Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu>:
> You don't need the $. In fact, an unescaped $ in a math expression is a
> syntax error.
>
> Admittedly, the feedback about this could be better than just "couldn't
> render". I'll look at passing more information about the exception back to
> Sphinx.
>
> Note also, you'll want a slash in front of \alpha in order to get Greek,
> rather than "alpha".
I think I've copied the usage suggested by the 'writing mathtext' page
in the mpl documentation (i.e. looking at its rst source [1]). That is
to say, the appearance of $ and the lack of \ are produced by the
extension, and not by me.
With this docstring:
"""
Test docstring with :math:`\alpha`
and longer
.. math::
\alpha = 2
"""
I get this error:
writing output... index modules/calculate
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sphinx/ext/sphinxext/mathmpl.py:107:
Warning: Could not render math expression $lpha$
Warning)
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sphinx/ext/sphinxext/mathmpl.py:107:
Warning: Could not render math expression $lpha = 2$
Warning)
I've just redownloaded the sphinx extensions from matplotlib svn, so
they're definitely all the latest versions.
[1]
http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/mathtext.rst?view=markup
Thanks for any pointers.
Angus.
--
AJC McMorland
Post-doctoral research fellow
Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
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