> 1. Backslashes
> At the Sage command line the help shows the two backslashes, but in
> the notebook the help gets Sphinx-icated (which is very nice!) but the
> double slash gets clobbered. LaTeX, escape codes, Python string,
> Python raw strings, Sphinx are all interacting improperly here. I'm
> going to post something in sage-devel. Thanks for pointing out the
> bug - keep it up and you'll become a Sage developer before you know
> it.
I'd like to head in that direction, but I'm still a novice.
> 2. % directives
> The preamble addition is a one-time deal (so run it once at the top of
> a worksheet), the %latex will call your latex installation to process
> what follows. A %hide in the first line of a cell will (mostly, 99%)
> hide the whole cell. A %auto will execute a cell when you open the
> worksheet (IIRC). I think the %hide always has to be first. Some
> combination of these might lead to appealing worksheets with diagrams
> visible and code hidden, but executed. Experiment.
Great, thanks for the tip.
> 4. Images in LaTeX
> I think what you are trying to do brings up a larger issue with the
> notebook. It is easy to paste jsMath (simple TeX basically) in the
> text version of a worksheet and it renders nicely. But this is not
> TeX doing the rendering. jsMath is a totally separate deal
> (javascript routines) that implements a subset of TeX. So for
> example, there may be no way to place a tikz graphic into the textual
> portion of a worksheet. All of the above is about making a Sage
> notebook executable cell produce the graphic and insert it into the
> worksheet as an output cell.
>
> So suppose a LaTeX document has a tikz (or other) graphic in it. How
> should it migrate to a worksheet as part of an automated conversion?
> Build the graphic first and put the image file in the worksheet?
> Thjis would be fairly easy, I think, and not totally dissimilar to
> what SageTeX does for plots (but maybe in reverse). Or should the
> tikz/latex code migrate to the notebook and get processed by some
> mechanism in the notebook? This sounds harder to me.
My fantasy is that I would be able to utilize all the features of LaTeX
(including packages like TikZ) to write prose with figures and be able to
insert a Sage cell (for @interacts, etc.) wherever I'd like.
Dana
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