On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Thomas Scofield <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I am creating notebooks to publish for my students to use in a spring > course. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am interspersing commands, output of > those commands, and explanatory text. The only way I know to create the > latter is to shift-click to open a text cell. I discovered a few days ago > that I can type LaTeX math-mode things that get formatted as I would hope > when the cell contents are saved: things like $x^2 + y^2$. But not > everything works. I do not get Greek letters, for instance, when I embed > $\alpha, \beta, ...$ in my text cell. I do not get a radical sign when I > type $\sqrt 3$. The equation > > $x = \rho\sin\phi\cos\theta$ > > was rendered exactly as it is typed above (with the backslashes) except > that no dollar signs were displayed. Is there a way to do this? (I must > admit that I didn't thoroughly search the reference manual before asking > this question, but I did search previous submissions to the Sage-support > list, and one thread suggested that what I attempted above should, indeed, > work.) > > If you don't have the jsmath-fonts installed right then that's what it does. Check this page for instructions and links to fix it: http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq#IgetanerrorfromjsMathorthemathsymbolsdon.27tlookrightwhendisplayinginthenotebook > I should mention something else, in case it is relevant. I am running Sage > inside a browser (Mozilla 3.5.7), using the "kernel" (is that the right way > to think of it?) at www.sagenb.org. For most of today, when I open up a > notebook I get the message > > "The page at http://www.sagenb.org says: It looks like jsMath failed to > set up properly (error code -7). I will try to keep going, but it could get > ugly." > > I cannot think of anything I've done which made this begin happening, but > the message reappears if I click on the jsMath button in the bottom right > corner and select "Reload". Does this have anything to do with my > typesetting issue? > > Thomas L. Scofield > -------------------------------------------------------- > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematics and Statistics > Calvin College > -------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<sage-support%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
