I'm unclear what you mean by "splitting of the \frac if the
denominator has a power". Can you give an example?

Aaron Meurer

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the middle of adding nice LaTeX printing for a units library I'm
> working on that uses sympy to handle the algebraic unit manipulation.
>
> I currently have lots of units that look like (for example) "g/cm**3".  I'd
> like to obtain LaTeX representations for these unit expressions using the
> sympy latex pretty printer, but I can't seem to find a way to format the
> resulting LaTeX like I'd like to.
>
> Currently, I have something like:
>
>>>>latex(sympify("g/cm**3"))
> \frac{g}{cm^{3}}.
>
> However, I'd like to somehow force the latex printing function to use "/"
> instead of "\frac{}{}".  It seems that this capability is *almost* there via
> the fold_short_frac keyword argument to the latex() function, described
> here:
> http://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/printing.html?highlight=latex#module-sympy.printing.latex
>
> Unfortunately, that keyword argument doesn't allow splitting of the
> "\frac{}{}" if the denominator has a power.  Is it possible to short-circuit
> this behavior somehow?  I'm happy to use lower-level capabilities in sympy
> if something is available but not exposed via the latex() pretty-printing
> API.
>
> Thanks for your help with this,
>
> Nathan Goldbaum
>
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