On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >>> I note from there: >>> >>> "latex -- highly recommended, though not strictly required" >>> >>> Should a warning be issued if latex is not installed? >> >> Latex used to be a lot more important in Sage than it is now. >> E.g., it used to be required to build *any* documentation, but now it >> isn't reuqired (since we have jsmath). Latex is only really used for >> building pdf docs and for %latex mode in the notebook. >> >> William > > > So would you suggest any sort of warning at all, a gentle one perhaps? If you > want to suggest something, I will implement it. >
How about: "latex -- recommended, though not required" Of course, probably anybody who knows Latex enough to use it explicitly in the notebook in a %latex cell already has latex installed. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
