On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:58 AM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Currently the latex methods for ZZ, RR, etc. all used mathbf -- plain
> boldface -- rather than mathbb -- 'blackboard' bold. See also the (not
> currently in use) file SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/doc/common/macros.tex:
> lots of mathbf, no mathbb.
>
> Is this an official style choice for Sage, or did it just
> spontaneously occur?
I "officially" chose it for the same reason I chose mathbb in all the
books/articles I wrote, which is that numerous people in publishing
convinced me that it is a better choice.
> What do you think of this choice? (I happen to prefer mathbf.)
I personally like it, since I made it.
> Would it be worthwhile to have it user-customizable somehow? We could
> have a command \sagebold or \ring or something, which might be \mathbf
> by default, but if you set a variable or call a function, it would
> change to \mathbb. (I am willing to implement this, but are there
> similar configurable options in Sage on which I could model it?)
I definitely think it would be worthwhile to have it
user-customizable. I think one of the best configurable options in
Sage is the proof object (type pro[tab]). This suggests maybe an
object, called maybe "tex", "typeset", or "latex", or something, which
has well-documented functions for each option one might want to
configure, e.g.,
sage: latex.matrix_parens('[',']')
sage: latex.sagebold('mathbf')
I like "latex", since in the notebook, I think there is *already* a
latex object:
sage: latex = sage.misc.latex.Latex()
sage: latex?
and we could just add to it. Note that the latex object is predefined
in notebook sessions but not on the command line right now, but you
could change that (make it be always defined).
- William
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> John
>
> >
>
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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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