On Mar 18, 6:39 pm, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:28 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This is a very interesting idea, and I think I can do it for ZZ,
> > QQbar, etc., but I don't know how to deal with GF(p). That is, in
> > docstrings, you presumably want GF(p) to appear as is, while to
> > evaluate latex(GF(p)), indeed to evaluate GF(p), p has to be an actual
> > integer. Any ideas how to use the _latex_ method for GF() to typeset
> > 'GF(p)' for p a variable or a string?
>
> Well, it's a bit of a hack, but this works:
>
> sage: latex(GF(2^5, 'a')).replace('2', 'p').replace('5', 'k')
> '\\mathbf{F}_{p^{k}}'
Okay, I have a prototype for doing this, but I need help: it's not
working, and I don't know why. Please look at my most recent comments
on <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5555>.
Thanks,
John
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