On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Rob Beezer wrote:
>> When I typed latex.add_to_preamble() I received a message saying that I
>> needed to provide two parameters. When I typed the command without the (),
>> I got:
>>
>> \newcommand{\Bold}[1]{\mathbf{#1}}\hbox{ < bound method
>> Latex.add_to_preamble of < sage.misc.latex.Latex instance at 0x10af7d2d8 >
>> > }
>>
>> which I'm guessing is what was supposed to happen.
>
> I was being too sloppy and you were being too literal - you have to
> have something to add. ;-)
Yeah, I figured this out. Seems obvious now.
> It's really just one parameter, its a
> Python/object-oriented thing that gives a misleading error message.
>
> Try:
>
> sage: latex.add_to_preamble?
>
> to get help. In there you will see examples such as:
>
> latex.add_to_preamble("\\usepackage{xypic}")
>
> Note the *double* backslash, where the first "escapes" the second one.
If you do
sage: latex.add_to_preamble?
the examples only use a single backslash and this doesn't work. Unless I'm
missing something, this should be fixed.
>>> Try at a system prompt:
>>> $ kpsewhich tikz.sty
>>> /home/rob/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/tikz.sty
>>
>> Here is what I got:
>>
>> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz.sty
>>
>> but I'm not sure if this means that sage can't find latex or not.
>
> That looks just like it should, but then doesn't help explain why Sage
> may not be seeing your TeX installation.
I have two copies of sage on my computer. One is Sage 4.3 for OSX 10.6 that I
obtained from the download page and the other I obtained using (to get an icon
to open immediately in a notebook; bdist):
export SAGE_APP_BUNDLE = "yes"
export SAGE_APP_DMG = "yes"
./sage -bdist MySage
Both sit inside a folder called sage that sits inside my home folder. However,
when I run Sage from the icon, I always get an error message saying that LaTeX
does not seem to be installed. Everything seems to work fine if I run Sage
from the standard install. However, I still don't quite understand what lines
of code need to be in separate cells and why. For example, why do
latex.add_to_preamble("\\usepackage{tikz}")
and
%latex
\begin{tikzpicture}
blah blah
\end{tikzpicture}
need to be in separate cells?
As a side note, I have not been able to install the bdist Sage on my home
computer. I posted something about this on the sage-support list, but haven't
heard anything. For now, it seems best for me to ignore the pretty purple sage
icon.
Thanks.
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