On Saturday 05 April 2008, David Joyner wrote:
> I tried following the README in the devel/doc/ref section and am
> having latex compilation problems.
> First, in mwrank somewhere there is a \Sha which latex has trouble with.
> Second, in sage.rings.polynomial.pbori there is a \Sage, \var{other}
> and var[ring] which
> I think latex doesn't like. (Could be wrong though.)

This is quite likely that I just forgot to add an r""" to the docstring such 
that the backslashes are passed through.

> Third, I think in code_constructions there is a line
>       ValueError including a traceback error message: "x must divide x^4 -
> 1" which latex complains about a missing $ sign. (I'm not sure though.)

x^4 is only valid in math mode.

> The problem is that when I try to correct them and rerun build_pdf, the new
> corrections are not taken into account. They I went into
> devel/doc/ref/sage and deleted
> the corresponding *.tex files and still, the compilation failed at the
> same places.

You need to edit the source (*.py, *.pyx) files rather than the TeX, so e.g.

SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/rings/polynomial/pbori.pyx 

Hope that helps,
Martin


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