Re: [sage-support] Preparing Latex slide for presentation

2015-06-28 Thread Eric Gourgoulhon
Hi, An alternative to the double '\' suggested by Vincent is to prefix the whole string with 'r', which indicates that the string is a *raw* string, so that '\t' is not to be interpreted as a tab but as '\' + 't': show(r"$\theta$") Eric. -- You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: [sage-support] Preparing Latex slide for presentation

2015-06-28 Thread Vincent Knight
Hi David, `\t` is a special character used for a tab. To get it to show properly you need to 'escape' the first `\` (with another `\`). This should give you the required behaviour: ``` show("$\\theta$") ``` You don't have this problem with `show("$\Theta$")` because `\T` is not a special charact

[sage-support] Preparing Latex slide for presentation

2015-06-28 Thread David Ingerman
Why does show("$\Theta$") display the capital Greek letter, but show("$\theta$") gives "heta"? Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sa