Re: [Axiom-developer] [fricas-devel] TexFormat with latex output

[Eugene Surowitz]

\begin{array} is the "native" LaTeX book invocation
of an "array" environment; if somebody has added
a "pmatrix" environment, I personally would avoid
using it in anything I wrote unless it is in the
current LaTeX2e (or beyond) standard.

It is a combinatorial impossibility for you, me, or
anyone else to support every major package out there.
Base level Latex is going to be hard enough.

It is impossible to guess the preference of every individual
and supply parameters and switches to have Axiom/FriCAS/OpenAxiom
anticipate the wishlists of the world.

PanAxiom is deaf, dumb, blind, and stupid;
there is no way code a TeX/LaTeX/package-list crystal ball
into it.

The only reason that I would ever use ")set output tex/latex on"
would be to cut-and-paste into a document which in turn would
be edited to suit; there is no way to guess what will be done
to the generated output at that point.

All of which means that package assumptions should not be made
at this time, repeat: at this time.

Get basic stuff correct first.

The same goes for private ".sty" files


Cheers, Gene

On 6/27/2014 9:33 AM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> On 06/27/2014 02:39 PM, Eugene Surowitz wrote:
> > LaTeX is what is being generated when ")set output tex on" is issued.
> > This is a bug.  The appropriate command should be ")set output latex on".
>
> Thanks Eugene.
>
> Yes, you are right. That is, what is written in section 4.5 of the AXIOM
> book. http://fricas.github.io/book.pdf
>
> So what is your opinion about \begin{pmatrix} vs. \begin{array}?
>
> It seems to boil down to the question whether one can assume
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> or not.
>
> Maybe we should generate totally different LaTeX commands and provide
> some .sty file that can be adapted by the user if needed. What about
> this idea? In fact all that can be local, because
> \begin{LaTeXMath} could switch the definitions on and \end{LaTeXMath}
> could switch them off.
>
> I'd like to hear opinions from everyone who is interested.
>
> Ralf