On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 17, 12:03 pm, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, John H Palmieri >> >> <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Well, I've been trying to modify 'latex_preamble' in sage/doc/common/ >> > conf.py, and I'm having no luck at all: no changes I make have any >> > effect. It seems like a good place to put a few macros (like \ZZ), but >> > maybe that variable isn't used either? >> >> I modified latex_preamble, did "sage -docbuild a_tour_of_sage latex", >> and the changes I made showed up in >> doc/output/latex/en/a_tour_of_sage/a_tour_of_sage.tex. (I picked >> a_tour_of_sage because it's the smallest document, so presumably the >> fastest to play with.) >> >> Carl > > Of course you're right. Since 'sage -docbuild blah html' also runs > latex (which you can see if you put \ZZ in some docstring somewhere -- > you'll get a LaTeX error about an undefined control sequence), I was > hoping that latex_preamble would also affect the html output. It > doesn't: pngmath_latex_preamble does, though. > > So I think it's easy to implement TeX macros into Sage: see <http:// > trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5555>. What macros should we > implement? I have \ZZ, \CC, \RR, and \QQ so far. The file $SAGE_ROOT/ > devel/sage/doc/common/macros.tex has lots of other choices, way too > many I think. If we can settle on a good selection, I will modify the > ticket to add them. >
Could we have a macro for every shortcut ring name in sage/rings/all.py? E.g. QQbar, CDF, etc.? William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
