On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Carl Witty wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Martin Albrecht
>>
>> <m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Carl Witty wrote:
>>>> My vote would be for `H_d(X, \ZZ)` (for easier typing), combined
>>>> with
>>>> some sort of LaTeX-to-plain-text processing to change \ZZ to Z
>>>> or ZZ
>>>> (I'm not sure which). (We have some LaTeX-to-plain-text already,
>>>> although it could definitely be improved.)
>>>
>>> Can't we just define a global macro like before?
>>>
>>> e.g. \newcommands{\ZZ}{\mathbb{ZZ}}
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> I was only talking about the LaTeX-to-plain-text for command-line
>> help
>> ('?' help at the sage: prompt).
>
>> For other purposes (the HTML and PDF documentation) we would use a
>> global macro, although I'm not sure if there's a place to put global
>> macros in the current process; we may need to adjust the build
>> process
>> some.
>
> ReST supports replacements/substitutions:
>
> http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html
>
> So, e.g. we could have:
>
> `H_d(X, |ZZ|)`
>
> and a global file which contains:
>
> .. |ZZ| \mathbb{ZZ}
>
> I'd say |ZZ| looks good enough?
This is yet another syntax to have to learn, and |ZZ| makes me think
of the cardinality of ZZ or something (though in that context I could
figure it out) and would be hard to safely strip for the LaTeX-to-
plain-text command. If it's not to difficult, I think \ZZ is a good
option.
- Robert
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