On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 1:19 PM Kurt Pagani <nil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 03.05.2021 18:09, Bill Page wrote: > > If it is necessary to consider alternatives, then I think one other approach > > would be to export a function that sets a "presentation" property on a > > Symbol > > and then make use of that property (if it exists) and if the flag is set in > > FormatMathJax. The benefit then might be that a formatter would have a > > choice as > > to whether to use the presentation property string or not. > > Do you think of something like setProperty/display in BOP? > https://fricas.github.io/api/BasicOperator.html
Yes, but probably a new property just to specify an alternate presentation for a particular symbol. Perhaps there could be several such alternatives of interest to different formatters. But if no relevant property exists or if for some reason it might be undesirable in a certain context then the fall back would be to just treat it the way it is done now. Of course more sophisticated things are possible. For example it might be nice to have some way to pass (sub/super/...)-scripts to the frontend formatter for substitution into a LaTeX snippet, i.e. like arguments to a macro. > Or have I completely misread your suggestion? > > I've been using the those methods for some time, e.g. > f:=operator 'f > display(f,o+->F) > f [x,y,z] -> F > properties f -> table(%display = NONE) > > in order to suppress the arguments (enhancing readibility of large formulas), > however, it's not exatly brilliant :( - you'll notice that as soon as you need > derivatives. > This sounds like another very good idea that should be polished up a little and included in FriCAS. > @Waldek > > it is not something > > localized but in principle has very wide scope. > > Admitted, however, what's wrong with this? It concerns MathJax only, and a > sin(a) remains as is unless you define another representation for "a" - > strictly > speaking, it's more like a substitution. > I can see that the current proposal might be undesirable if the same worksheet is to be presented in another format, e.g. a worksheet prepared in jfricas but later you want to use it in TeXmacs. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAC6x94Qh7TU7Spkyef5tv0LKDfdOgtj06d%3Dm%3D%3DYWgZ-2ETUyqw%40mail.gmail.com.
