On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been spending the last few days going between writing a lot of
> code with very math heavy Sphinx docstrings containing many backticks,
> and writing LaTeX documents (papers/notes/etc.) using $ signs for math
> mode.  It is driving me totally crazy!  I constantly accidentally put
> $'s in my Spinx docstrings and now I'm starting to put back ticks ` in
> my LaTeX documents.
>
> Is anybody else annoyed by this?   I am very tempted to change Sage so
> that $ signs can be used as a synonym for backquotes in docstrings.  I
> would leave backticks, but make it so $'s just get converted to
> backticks, plus maybe some marker to leave $'s as $'s (e.g., whatever
> one would currently do to enter a backtick in Sphinx).
>
>   [ ] Yes, give me $'s!
>
>   [ ] No, this doesn't bug me; let's keep ReST/Sphinx in Sage "pure".

[x] Yes, this bugs me; but let's keep ReST/Sphinx in Sage "pure".

>
>
>  -- William
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> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
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> >
>

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