On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Carl Witty wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Martin Albrecht
>
> <m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Carl Witty wrote:
> >> My vote would be for `H_d(X, \ZZ)` (for easier typing), combined with
> >> some sort of LaTeX-to-plain-text processing to change \ZZ to Z or ZZ
> >> (I'm not sure which). (We have some LaTeX-to-plain-text already,
> >> although it could definitely be improved.)
> >
> > Can't we just define a global macro like before?
> >
> > e.g. \newcommands{\ZZ}{\mathbb{ZZ}}
> >
> > ?
>
> I was only talking about the LaTeX-to-plain-text for command-line help
> ('?' help at the sage: prompt).
> For other purposes (the HTML and PDF documentation) we would use a
> global macro, although I'm not sure if there's a place to put global
> macros in the current process; we may need to adjust the build process
> some.
ReST supports replacements/substitutions:
http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html
So, e.g. we could have:
`H_d(X, |ZZ|)`
and a global file which contains:
.. |ZZ| \mathbb{ZZ}
I'd say |ZZ| looks good enough?
Cheers,
Martin
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