On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Jason Grout >> <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >>> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Feb 17, 1:09 pm, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >>>>>>> schmmd wrote: >>>>>>>> I don't seem to be able to pretty print in sage. I remember doing >>>>>>>> this in class, but the pretty_print function gives the error "It looks >>>>>>>> like jsMath failed to set up properly (error code -7). I will try to >>>>>>>> keep going, but it could get ugly." when I use it in the notebook >>>>>>>> through vmware or the notebook on one of the public web servers. Am I >>>>>>>> doing anything wrong? How can I, for example, print a matrix with >>>>>>>> latex formatting? >>>>>>> You are doing things correctly. You just need to install some fonts. >>>>>>> See >>>>>>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq#IgetanerrorfromjsMathorthemathsymbolsdon... >>>>>> Where does this error message come from? How hard would it be to >>>>>> change it to refer to >>>>>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq#IgetanerrorfromjsMathorthemathsymbolsdon.27tlookrightwhendisplayinginthenotebook >>>>>> ? >>>>>> >>>>>> (I think this might be worth doing even if it requires patching >>>>>> jsMath.) >>>>> I am getting the same error, so I followed up the wiki and I installed >>>>> both jsmath-fonts and smath-fonts-sprite packages in Ubuntu, but the >>>>> error still stays... >>> >>> Install the jsmath-image-fonts spkg (i.e., *sage* package, not ubuntu >>> package), and the error should go away...I think... >> >> Ah -- I was stupid, yes, this fixes the problem! Thanks a lot! >> >>> That said, I agree that the error message is annoying, though it's >>> probably annoying for a reason... >> >> So maybe jsmath-image-fonts could be in Sage by default? >> > > It's too big---something like 80MB unzipped (lots and lots and lots of > little tiny image files; one for each character). > > The error message should be changed, and we ought to distribute the > fonts from the jsmath homepage with Sage, so that instead of an error > message, there is a nice helpful link that says something like "to get > much better fonts, click here and follow these instructions, or install > the jsmath-image-fonts spkg"
+1!! We've been meaning to do that forever... William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
