On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM, John Cremona<john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I believe that people rather than abstractions should take priority. > We are used to using $...$ for maths, so why should we not make the > docs markup system we use adapt to us rather than the other way round? > I find the view 'let's keep ReST/Sphinx in Sage "pure" ' very hard to > understand!
In general, Sage has gotten a lot of flak for breaking compatibility, not upstreaming, etc. So, I think we should try and avoid it. If nothing else, it increases the amount of effort required to upgrade. OTOH, I'm hugely in favor of making this change to ReST/Sphinx, and upstreaming it. > > 2009/9/3 William A. Stein <wst...@gmail.com>: >> > >> That's a good idea. It would certainly be better than having to >> change Sage -- it would keep things "pure", but allow $'s, and even >> benefit you. Great idea. It's hard to argue with that. > > I could not work out which idea is getting this thumbs up? If we can > arrange for all single $ to be changed into ` that's fine by me. I > have never used Ondrej's :math: in front, but maybe I should have. > > John > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
