On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Mar 17, 12:03 pm, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, John H Palmieri
> >>
> >> <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Well, I've been trying to modify 'latex_preamble' in sage/doc/common/
> >> > conf.py, and I'm having no luck at all: no changes I make have any
> >> > effect. It seems like a good place to put a few macros (like \ZZ), but
> >> > maybe that variable isn't used either?
> >>
> >> I modified latex_preamble, did "sage -docbuild a_tour_of_sage latex",
> >> and the changes I made showed up in
> >> doc/output/latex/en/a_tour_of_sage/a_tour_of_sage.tex. (I picked
> >> a_tour_of_sage because it's the smallest document, so presumably the
> >> fastest to play with.)
> >>
> >> Carl
> >
> > Of course you're right. Since 'sage -docbuild blah html' also runs
> > latex (which you can see if you put \ZZ in some docstring somewhere --
> > you'll get a LaTeX error about an undefined control sequence), I was
> > hoping that latex_preamble would also affect the html output. It
> > doesn't: pngmath_latex_preamble does, though.
> >
> > So I think it's easy to implement TeX macros into Sage: see <http://
> > trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5555>. What macros should we
> > implement? I have \ZZ, \CC, \RR, and \QQ so far. The file $SAGE_ROOT/
> > devel/sage/doc/common/macros.tex has lots of other choices, way too
> > many I think. If we can settle on a good selection, I will modify the
> > ticket to add them.
How about e.g. \GF{p,n} and \GF{p} I use those a lot.
Martin
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