If you're referring to the documentation, that is not SymPy Live, except for the popup that appears on the bottom right. The docs use Sphinx (the sources are in the sympy/sympy repo). They use the Sphinx mathjax extension. MathJax is itself a Javascript library, so it only exists on the webpage. The code that writes the HTML files just writes the LaTeX into those files, and MathJax renders it in the browser.
SymPy Live is a website at live.sympy.org, and it is also included in the docs in the bottom right. The examples in the docs do not use MathJax, but rather just show the output directly from Python. That way if you copy and paste the example in a terminal, the output will look exactly the same. The page you mentioned shows Unicode output so that it is easier to read. If you don't have the right fonts installed, it can render poorly. We are looking for better ways to solve this (https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/15700), but for now, I recommend installing DejaVu Sans Mono. The only MathJax used in the tutorial is the math in the text surrounding the examples, which is not computed from SymPy. For your own computation, I recommend using the Jupyter notebook using Jupyter Lab. That will automatically render SymPy output using MathJax, and it has other nice features as well, like the ones you described from MATLAB. Aaron Meurer On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 3:56 AM Thomas Ligon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, this is helpful. > > When I search > https://github.com/sympy/sympy-live > I can only find it in > https://github.com/sympy/sympy-live/tree/master/templates/base.html > so I can't confirm your remark >> >> What SymPy Live does is return the LaTeX string of expression using the >> LaTeX printer (accessible through the latex() function), and then passes >> that to MathJax > > > It looks to me like the tutorial web page, which might be Jupyter, does this. > > In the SymPy tutorial, the first examples in > https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/intro.html > print nicely, but, starting with "The Power of Symbolic Computation" and the > example > diff(sin(x)*exp(x), x) > the output is no longer nicely formatted, but looks like "Unicode" > formatting. Here, you can also see that the output is no longer centered. In > addition, the examples do not include print statements, so it looks like the > lines in the examples that don't contain ">>>" were not created by the > example itself. When I look at the source of the web page for the tutorial, I > can see that it contains URLs for live.sympy.org, and also for MathJax. My > conclusion: The use of MathJax is not in the SymPy Live code, but in the code > of the tutorial web page. > Finally, it looks to me like what I need is not to understand how SymPy Live > formats the output, but how the tutorial formats it. If I need immediate > formatting in my project, I should probably use Jupyter notebooks. > In comparison, I have done a lot with MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox, and now I > am just starting to use Python and SymPy. In MATLAB, I got the best > formatting using MATLAB "live scripts", whÃch are a kind of notebook. > However, the output was never good enough for publication, so I used it for > calculations and searching for a solution, and the created my publication > documents in another system. > > On Monday, December 9, 2019 at 12:22:59 AM UTC+1, Aaron Meurer wrote: >> >> The SymPy Live source code is at https://github.com/sympy/sympy-live >> >> Aaron Meurer >> >> On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 2:04 PM Thomas Ligon <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Aaron, >> > >> > this answers a question I had, except that I can't see MathJax called >> > anywhere. A search for mathjax in SymPy gives me 4 occurrences in >> > printing.py and 2 in latex.py, but none that call MathJax. Can/should I >> > search the code of Live? >> > >> > On Friday, May 25, 2012 at 10:29:27 PM UTC+2, Aaron Meurer wrote: >> >> >> >> What SymPy Live does is return the LaTeX string of expression using >> >> the LaTeX printer (accessible through the latex() function), and then >> >> passes that to MathJax, which converts it to a printed expression. >> >> Any string output is passed to MathJax, so even if you just enter a >> >> string, it will be parsed as LaTeX. >> >> >> >> If you want to know how the LaTeX printer works, see >> >> sympy/printing/latex.py. >> >> >> >> Aaron Meurer >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Matthew Rocklin <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi Duncan, >> >> > >> >> > To the best of my knowledge SymPy is unable to parse LaTeX. We are >> >> > however >> >> > able to generate it; this is what you're seeing on live.sympy.org. >> >> > >> >> > You can look at our latex printing by downloading our source and >> >> > checking >> >> > out the sympy/sympy/printing/latex.py file. >> >> > >> >> > I think it would be awesome to have a latex parser for SymPy. This >> >> > might be >> >> > challenging though. >> >> > >> >> > -Matt >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Duncan Steele >> >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Hello, I am new to sympy, and I am really impressed by the web demo at >> >> >> live.sympy.org. I am trying to replicate that shell's ability to >> >> >> understand latex maths notation, and I have been unsuccessful. I have >> >> >> combed through both sympy and sympy-live without understanding how >> >> >> live.sympy.org parses latex maths. >> >> >> >> >> >> There seems to be some API function that the web shell calls to parse >> >> >> the string I type in, e.g. 'X = \sum_i x_i = X '. 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