On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:41 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 4:58 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I am writing a Spninx docstring in Sage, and I want to write, e.g.,
> >
> > `{\rm Gal}(K/L)`
> >
> > how do I do this?
>
> For me, `\mathrm{Gal}(K/L)` works: in Latex, {rm Gal} is deprecated in
> favor of \mathrm{Gal} (or \textrm{Gal} if you're in text mode rather
> than math mode). I guess jsMath doesn't do the old version.
>
> > By the way, one of the best ways to test Sphinx docstrings is actually to
> > just paste them into a function definition in a notebook cell, then
> evaluate
> > it, and introspect the function. That allows for easy experimentation
> and
> > testing without restarting Sage.
>
> That's a great idea -- I hadn't thought of that.
>
> John
Perfect, \mathrm worked like a charm. Thanks!
Here's a little screen shot:
http://wstein.org/home/wstein/tmp/jsmath.jpg
William
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