Thanks for the quick reply. This is now Ticket #6403. How much effort
would it be to expose this Pynac functionality?
Cheers,
Stan
Burcin Erocal wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:22:46 +0200
> Stan Schymanski <schym...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have been asked to forward the below to the sage-devel list. Ticket
>> #6290 introduced a way to custom-define the latex style of functions,
>> but it would be great if something similar was made possible for any
>> variable. Is there a way for this already? I used to do it in the
>> following way, but now I get an error message:
>>
>> sage: var('hi kunsati delyui')
>> sage: hi._latex_ = lambda: 'h_i' # Matric suction
>> head in layer i (=pcapvec)
>> sage: kunsati._latex_ = lambda: 'K_{unsat,i}' # Unsaturated
>> hydraulic conductivity in layer i
>> sage: delyui._latex_ = lambda: '\delta_{yu,i}' # Soil layer
>> thickness in layer i
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> ...
>> AttributeError: 'sage.symbolic.expression.Expression' object attribute
>> '_latex_' is read-only
>>
>
> Since Expression is a cython class, you cannot overwrite the _latex_()
> method.
>
> Pynac supports setting latex names for variables at creation, but this
> functionality is not exposed in the wrapper. Another solution by
> hacking latex_variable_name() might be possible, but I would like to
> avoid that if possible.
>
> Feel free to open a new issue in trac about it.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Burcin
>
>
> >
>
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