On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jason Grout
<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
>
> John H Palmieri wrote:
>> On Mar 18, 1:53 am, Martin Albrecht <m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote:
>>
>> In response to William, I think \QQbar makes sense, but I'm not sure
>> about CDF: Carl had good questions about it, and besides, it's not
>> standard mathematical notation. I don't know which other ones from
>> rings/all.py you had in mind.
Why not have some special shortcut so that we can typeset any ring
using Sage itself. E.g.,
in answer to your question "what should CDF" typeset as, I answer
sage: latex(CDF)
Then we can argue about what latex(CDF) should be in Sage instead...
Building the docs could auto-define macros for all the standard
pre-defined rings by calling Sage and getting the output of the latex
command.
Then the arguments below about how to typeset GF(p) also disappear (or
change form) -- just typeset GF(p) as whatever
sage: latex(GF(p))
typesets as.
My proposal has the advantage of consistency in that the typesetting
in the docs will match the typesetting in sage.
>>
>>> How about e.g. \GF{p,n} and \GF{p} I use those a lot.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>
>> We could have \GF, and then you could do \GF(p) and \GF(p^n), but how
>> should GF be typeset? If it's something like
>>
>> \DeclareMathOperator{\GF}{GF}
>>
>> then a macro makes sense. If it's essentially indistinguishable from
>> 'GF' in math mode, then I say we don't include it. What did you have
>> in mind?
>
>
> I believe I've seen it as $\mathbb{F}_{p}$ or $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$ lots of
> times.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
> >
>
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Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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