On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote:
> Hi Tim!
>
> On 2 Apr., 19:24, Tim Joseph Dumol <t...@timdumol.com> wrote:
>> I believe html(C) is used to display an HTML string (say, "<strong>Hello
>> World!</strong>"). It is not meant to return an HTML representation of an
>> arbitrary object.
Correct.
>
> OK.
>
> But still: Shouldn't it display a *nice* HTML string (provided by a
> special method) rather than just display the usual string
> representation of the object?
>
> Example:
> The status quo is
> sage: R.<t>=QQ[]
> sage: p = R.random_element()
> sage: p
> -3/4*t^2 + 7*t - 1
> sage: html(p)
> <html><font color='black'>-3/4*t^2 + 7*t - 1</font></html>
>
> Shouldn't the result rather be <html><font
> color='black'><nobr>-3/4·t<sup>2</sup> + 7·t - 1</nobr></
> font></html> or so?
>
> I really thought this would already be implemented (using a special
> method _html_)
Nope. That might be an interesting project to take up.
I usually use:
html("$%s$"%latex(object))
-- William
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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