I just downloaded and installed Sage yesterday. I am a brand new user of this particular computer algebra system, though I have used Mathematica in the past.
I was very pleased to see that Sage supports Latex, but I am confused over how to use it. I have searched the documentation and tutorials thoroughly, but could not get a clear answer on my question. Maybe I am just approaching things from the wrong direction. Sage has a latex function: latex( ), which returns the Latex representation of an expression. Example: f=x^2 + 1 latex(f) This will print out the appropriate Latex commands for rendering the expression or, with jsMath enabled, will render the Latex commands as valid HTML. Sage also has a %latex mode. After typing %latex, everything after the prompt is interpreted as Latex and rendered on the server into a graphic (png file). Here's what I am trying to do: I would like to typeset my Sage expressions into Latex without the intermediate step of copying the Latex generated by the latex( ) function and then pasting it into an expression that starts with %latex. In other words, I would like to do something like this: %latex latex(f) would create a png graphic of the expression f. However, it currently just creates a graphic of the literal string "latex(f)". I understand that the Latex interpreted doesn't understand Sage syntax, but is there a way to get Sage to render to Latex? I am working in a single user environment, so performance is not an issue. I really would just prefer the PNG output over the jsMath output so that I could copy and paste the PNG files into other documents, such as word processor documents or HTML pages where the user does not have jsMath support. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps there is some utility, or some Sage setting that I haven't found yet? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
