John H Palmieri wrote: > On Sep 3, 12:37 pm, "William A. Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >>> So how about submitting a patch to sphinx >>> fixing it? >>> Ondrej >> That's a good idea. It would certainly be better than having to >> change Sage -- it would keep things "pure", but allow $'s, and even >> benefit you. Great idea. It's hard to argue with that. > > Well, dollar signs are mentioned (briefly) in the Sphinx > documentation, in the part about writing extensions. So we could > write an extension for Sphinx which replaces "$" with "`", or > optionally replaces "$blah$" with ":math:`blah`". I don't want to > make it too fancy, so it ought to be a pretty simple regular > expression search and replace. How does that sound? > > More precisely: we can have a Sphinx extension with a configurable > option; set one way, it will replace "$blah$" with "`blah`" (and > replace "\$" with "$"). Set the other way, it will replace "$blah$" > with ":math:`blah`" (and replace "\$" with "$"). > > What else should we do? Do we have to deal with "$$ blah $$"? "\ > [ blah \]"? I don't want this to be too involved, or we'll end up > writing a LaTeX compiler.
Would it be too hard to make a more general (and useful) "custom-delimiter" extension, that would allow a person to specify a right and left delimiter that is just textually replaced with the mode of their choice? Our configuration would look something like: right_delimiter='$' left_delimiter='$' mode=math Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
