On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Scofield <scofi...@calvin.edu> wrote: > > I have made an interactive notebook for help students understand the meaning > of spherical coordinates. It is published at > http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/1400/ > The main issue here is the labeling of objects using symbols. I saw a > posting from William Stein at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/fed33b91e4700969/6c1073f9bcc4928d?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=latex+text+in+plot#6c1073f9bcc4928d > which (though directed at the text() command instead of text3d()), indicated > I should be able to use > text3d('$\\rho$', (1,1,1)) > (the double backslash was important) to place a desired Greek symbol in a > desired location. That seems not to be working, however. Instead, the > backslash characters seem (sometimes) to wipe out the first letter, and the > rest of "ho" is printed, along with the dollar signs. Is this a bug?
It's not a bug. Unfortunately, Latex typesetting of text in 3d plots is not supported by JMol (the 3d renderer we use). > Thomas L. Scofield > -------------------------------------------------------- > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematics and Statistics > Calvin College > -------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
