On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, William Stein 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).
>
>   [X] Yes, give me $'s!
>
>   [ ] No, this doesn't bug me; let's keep ReST/Sphinx in Sage "pure".

I've been annoyed by this ever since we switched over to ReST.

- Robert


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