On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Alan Bromborsky <abro...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Ondrej Certik wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> sorry for my late reply, I was moving to Nevada/Reno, but now things
>> seem to settle down a bit.
>>
>>
>>> Have added minimal doc files to repository (~100K attached patch file).
>>> They compiled OK with 'make html'.  I will do it this way from now on.
>>>
>>
>> Now it looks good, thanks for the patch!
>>
>> I pushed your patch into my repository here for the time being:
>>
>> http://github.com/certik/sympy/tree/alan2
>>
>> What happens if people don't have latex installed? E.g. how
>> matplotlib/numpy/scipy handle this? I want to follow the same path.
>> Then I push it in.
>>
>> Ondrej
>>
>> >
>>
>>
> Would a simple answer be to not have the xdvi function call latex and
> xdvi if they are not in the path and simply generate a .tex output file
> (operate in the same way as LatexPrinter).  That would be a simple
> change.  Of course why would anyone use a latex driver if they didn't
> have latex and xdvi?  Note that I did not have to use the latex_ex

That's right, but I meant doing "make html". If you do that, it runs
latex (with your patch applied), at least for me. So I was just
curious what happens if I don't have latex and if it breaks, how to
fix it, or wheter we should require latex present to build our docs.

> module to display the results, but the ascii version of the output would
> not be as clear.

Right.

Ondrej

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