Thanks for your reply; As I am completely new to sage I do not know how to perform the indicated change. I looked at the file sage/devel/sage/sage/matrix0.pyx but could not figure out how and where to add the function sage.matrix.matrix0.set_latex_delimiters('[',']')
Norbert On Mar 10, 1:34 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jason Grout > > > > <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > > nsauer wrote: > >> Thanks again for your help. > > >> The textbook I am teaching linear algebra from prints matrices > >> with brackets as delimeters. [ ]. Hence when I set a test and > >> write solutions with LateX I wish to use the same notation for > >> matrices as used in the text. > >> But just using the standard way to include matrices from > >> sage into LateX produces matrices inside ( ) delimters. > >> \sage{matrix([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]])^3} > > >> I checked the LateX stylefile for including sage but > >> notation for shape of matrices is not defined there. > > > It looks like this is done in the last line of the _latex_ function in > > sage/devel/sage/sage/matrix0.pyx. How comfortable are you with changing > > Sage code? > > > I agree that this should be an option. Also, the delimiters for vectors > > should be an option. > > +1. > > How about adding a function to matrix0.pyx that sets a global variable > in that file to the left and right delimiters for matrices? > > sage.matrix.matrix0.set_latex_delimiters('[',']') > > would set them. That's minimally intrusive. Later on somebody could > come up with some grand scheme for customizing latex output, but > please don't until there are a few more use cases. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---