On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:28 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a very interesting idea, and I think I can do it for ZZ,
> QQbar, etc., but I don't know how to deal with GF(p). That is, in
> docstrings, you presumably want GF(p) to appear as is, while to
> evaluate latex(GF(p)), indeed to evaluate GF(p), p has to be an actual
> integer. Any ideas how to use the _latex_ method for GF() to typeset
> 'GF(p)' for p a variable or a string?
Well, it's a bit of a hack, but this works:
sage: latex(GF(2^5, 'a')).replace('2', 'p').replace('5', 'k')
'\\mathbf{F}_{p^{k}}'
Of course, just hardcoding \mathbf{F}_{p^k} also works, and is much simpler :)
Carl
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