I got:
File "problemset.py", line 39
_st_.inline(_sage_const_1 , latex(''%_sage_const_12p 3e"%lnm1))
^
SyntaxError: invalid token
where lnm1 is a variable defined in a \begin{sagesilent} ...
\end{sagesilent} environment.
On Mar 3, 3:19 am, Dan Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 at 07:34PM -0800, sm123123 wrote:
> > I tried using the format specs in SageTeX:
>
> > \newcommand{\sagenum}[1]{\sage{''temp1=#1;%12.3e"%temp1}}
>
> > This fails to compile as "%" is the comment character in LaTeX.
>
> > If I escape it with a backslash (as is customary in LaTeX), Sage
> > chokes on the code.
>
> > Catch 22.
>
> There are three ways to avoid the catch-22. The first involves buying
> eggs for 22 cents and making a profit by selling them for 19 cents...or
> whatever it was. (It's been a while since I've read the book...)
>
> The other two ways:
>
> 1. SageTeX provides the \percent macro which puts a % into the Sage code
> without confusing TeX.
>
> 2. You can use "new style" string
> formatting:http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#formatstrings
>
> That doesn't use any percent signs (at least, I don't think it does for
> your use-cases).
>
> NOte that your \sagenum won't work, since executing multiple statements
> separated by a semicolon isn't supported. Try
>
> \newcommand{\sagenum}[1]{\sage{"\percent12.3e"\percent #1}}
>
> which wraps the output in \texttt (since that's what Sage's latex() does
> to strings). If you want the plain output put into your file, try
> \sagestr instead of \sage.
>
> Dan
>
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