On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 11:28:59 -0700 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> If we also instantiate the class but with name returning 'ln', that > >> might work. > > > > Whenever it made a round trip to maxima, etc. it would get > > "normalized" back to log. Also, would > > > > sage: log(x) + ln(x) > > 2*log(x) > > > > Just declaring ln = log, and not having ln in the output (unless > > perhaps some special typesetting option was on) seems like the > > simplest case to me. Having ln preserved sometimes, but not all the > > time, is just asking for a complicated system and user confusion. I agree. > That's definitely the easiest to implement, since that's what we > already have! :-) > Well, except for this bug: > > sage: log(x) > log(x) > sage: latex(log(x)) > \ln\left(x\right) > > which of course started this whole thread. This is easy to fix. It will be in the next pynac release, which should be in the next Sage release. :) This is now: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6902 Do we have a planned release date so I know when to wrap up my changes in pynac and submit them for review? Minh? Cheers, Burcin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
