I agree. Ideally, sagetex would work with the numprint package and the
different language packages for babel,so that users of sagetex and
those packages wouldn't need to do anything different. Or, as I think
you imply, an option within sagetex.
Oscar
On Mar 23, 7:34 pm, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 at 07:25AM -0700, iDan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > In french, we use comma as decimal separator. How can I convert the
> > result of the instruction \sage{} (from sagetex package) ?
>
> Hrm, unfortunately, I don't think this is possible right now.
>
> You can have Sage insert a comma in this way:
>
> sage: x = 1.234
> sage: x.str().replace('.', ',')
> '1,23400000000000'
>
> so in your TeX file, you could do
>
> $\sage{(sqrt(3)).str().replace('.', ',')}$
>
> which is not very pleasant.
>
> You could define a small function which makes this nicer:
>
> \begin{sagesilent}
> def numprint(x):
> return x.str().replace('.', ',')
> \end{sagesilent}
>
> and then use \sage{numprint(x)}, which is a bit nicer.
>
> Python has a bit of support for locale-dependent printing, which I
> should go investigate.
>
> I think the real long-term solution is to change the str() method to
> allow commas as the decimal separator and create a configuration option
> so that a user can say "use commas always".
>
> Dan
>
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