[sage-support] Re: Problem with html('$\tan$') in notebook....Latex commands beginning with \t have problems?

2011-06-21 Thread Jason Grout

On 6/21/11 12:23 PM, Chris Seberino wrote:



On Jun 21, 7:56 am, kcrisman  wrote:

For clarification, this creates a "raw" string.  You should also be
able to use \\tan, which "escapes" the \ so that it doesn't have a
special meaning to Python.


I imagine similar issues are going to happen for Latex commands that
begin with n and r then? :)



Yes.  Anytime I think there might be latex in a string, I use the 
r"string" raw syntax.


\v is also another problem

Jason


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[sage-support] Re: Problem with html('$\tan$') in notebook....Latex commands beginning with \t have problems?

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Seberino


On Jun 21, 7:56 am, kcrisman  wrote:
> For clarification, this creates a "raw" string.  You should also be
> able to use \\tan, which "escapes" the \ so that it doesn't have a
> special meaning to Python.

I imagine similar issues are going to happen for Latex commands that
begin with n and r then? :)

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[sage-support] Re: Problem with html('$\tan$') in notebook....Latex commands beginning with \t have problems?

2011-06-21 Thread kcrisman


On Jun 20, 10:37 pm, Nils Bruin  wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2:13 pm, Chris Seberino  wrote:
>
> > Is there a problem with Latex commands that begin with \t for some
> > reason?
>
> That's just python's string escaping. Use html(r'$\tan$') instead.

For clarification, this creates a "raw" string.  You should also be
able to use \\tan, which "escapes" the \ so that it doesn't have a
special meaning to Python.

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[sage-support] Re: Problem with html('$\tan$') in notebook....Latex commands beginning with \t have problems?

2011-06-20 Thread Nils Bruin
On Jun 20, 2:13 pm, Chris Seberino  wrote:
> Is there a problem with Latex commands that begin with \t for some
> reason?

That's just python's string escaping. Use html(r'$\tan$') instead.

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