On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been spending the last few days going between writing a lot of > code with very math heavy Sphinx docstrings containing many backticks, > and writing LaTeX documents (papers/notes/etc.) using $ signs for math > mode. It is driving me totally crazy! I constantly accidentally put > $'s in my Spinx docstrings and now I'm starting to put back ticks ` in > my LaTeX documents. > > Is anybody else annoyed by this? I am very tempted to change Sage so > that $ signs can be used as a synonym for backquotes in docstrings. I > would leave backticks, but make it so $'s just get converted to > backticks, plus maybe some marker to leave $'s as $'s (e.g., whatever > one would currently do to enter a backtick in Sphinx).
I am also writing lots of formulas using rest, e.g.: http://certik.github.com/mhd-hermes/sphinx-doc/physics.html and it bugs me that I have to type :math:`\eta` instead of just $\eta$. So how about submitting a patch to sphinx fixing it? Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
