Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 3 weeks ago
#11362 needs_review defect
Repair show for Cayley tables as MathJax does not support setlength
Reported by: | was | Owned by: | joyner |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | sage-9.3 |
Component: | group theory | Keywords: | latex, jupyter, mathjax |
Cc: | slelievre, klee | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Dave Morris | Reviewers: | |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | public/11362 (Commits, GitHub, GitLab) | Commit: | 71b0986c0ce5f2d0a4e8cdd37483125d7350c667 |
Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description (last modified by )
Define a finite group and its multiplication table:
sage: S = SymmetricGroup(3) sage: T = S.multiplication_table()
The multiplication table can give latex code to be copy-pasted in a paper:
sage: latex(T) \setlength{\arraycolsep}{2\ex} \begin{array}{r|*{6}{r}} \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\ast}&a&b&c&d&e&f\\\hline {}a&a&b&c&d&e&f\\ {}b&b&a&d&c&f&e\\ {}c&c&e&a&f&b&d\\ {}d&d&f&b&e&a&c\\ {}e&e&c&f&a&d&b\\ {}f&f&d&e&b&c&a\\ \end{array}}
but is also used for showing the table in a notebook worksheet.
In Sage 4.8 with SageNB we used to have:
sage: show(T) Unknown control sequence '\setlength'
In Sage 9.2.rc0 with Jupyter, show(T)
does
display a table but with \setlength
displayed
in red instead of contributing to the rendering.
Change History (15)
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- Cc slelievre added
- Description modified (diff)
- Keywords latex jupyter mathjax added
- Milestone changed from sage-6.4 to sage-9.3
- Summary changed from showing a Cayley table fails in the notebook due to bad latex code to Repair show for Cayley tables as MathJax does not support setlength
Still a problem in Jupyter Notebook with Sage 9.2.rc0.
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The PR adds a variable sage.misc.latex_macros.sage_configurable_mathjax_macros
that holds a list of macro definitions that pretty_print
will include in all LaTeX code that is sent to MathJax
. The PR then solves the problem on this ticket by adding \multicolumn
and \setlength
to this list as no-ops that swallow their arguments.
New commits:
7381952 | trac 11362 configurable mathjax macros
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71b0986 | update doctests
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comment:9 Changed 3 weeks ago by
- Cc klee added
comment:10 Changed 3 weeks ago by
I don't like the proposed solution. It seems a bandage.
A general solution that would also solve possible future problems would be to introduce a new magic method obj._mathjax_() which provides latex code renderable by mathjax and defaults to an alias of obj._latex_() when it is not defined for obj.
comment:11 follow-up: ↓ 13 Changed 3 weeks ago by
I sympathize with what you are saying, and I considered that solution (except that my idea was to add a keyword (maybe style="MathJax"
) to the _latex_
command. But I don't see how to make it will work without massive changes, because an object that does not have a _mathjax_
method will presumably call the _latex_
method of its subobjects (or subexpressions) and will therefore not do the right thing for MathJax.
I think of MathJax as being a version of latex, rather than a completely different format, so I think it is reasonable to just add a tweak to make it work better (as in my PR). The variable I added simply makes it possible to add definitions for latex macros that MathJax does not understand, and is completely analogous to the variable sage_configurable_latex_macros
that is already in sage, which makes it possible to add definitions for sage macros that vanilla latex does not understand.
comment:12 Changed 3 weeks ago by
How about using _rich_repr_
? This seems a general mechanism to serve the purpose that I have in mind about _mathjax_
. There are many examples in Sage src.
comment:13 in reply to: ↑ 11 Changed 3 weeks ago by
Replying to gh-DaveWitteMorris:
I sympathize with what you are saying, and I considered that solution (except that my idea was to add a keyword (maybe
style="MathJax"
) to the_latex_
command. But I don't see how to make it will work without massive changes, because an object that does not have a_mathjax_
method will presumably call the_latex_
method of its subobjects (or subexpressions) and will therefore not do the right thing for MathJax.I think of MathJax as being a version of latex, rather than a completely different format, ...
MathJax
is a javascript renderer for latex in html, and also sometimes means the subset of latex it supports. On the other hand LaTeX
is a format for TeX which primarily targets printing.
It seems to me currently there is some unfortunate confused code in this respect in the rich output system in Sage. Perhaps straightening the confused code would give a natural solution of this ticket's problem. I will investigate more.
comment:14 Changed 3 weeks ago by
Related:
- #31536: Divorce MathJax from LaTeX and let it marry HTML
comment:15 Changed 3 weeks ago by
With #31536, the following patch will solve the problem of this ticket.
-
src/sage/matrix/operation_table.py
diff --git a/src/sage/matrix/operation_table.py b/src/sage/matrix/operation_table.py index 6feda2215a..8c066f11a9 100644
a b class OperationTable(SageObject): 1078 1078 table.append('\\end{array}') 1079 1079 table.append('}') 1080 1080 return ''.join(table) 1081 1082 def _html_(self): 1083 n = self._n 1084 names = self._names 1085 1086 # Headers 1087 table = ['\\begin{array}{r|*{'+str(n)+'}{r}}\n'] 1088 table.append(self._latex_symbol) 1089 table += ['&'+names[i] for i in range(n)] 1090 table.append('\\\\\\hline\n') 1091 1092 # Row label and body of table 1093 for g in range(n): 1094 table.append('{}') # Interrupts newline and [], so not line spacing 1095 table.append(names[g]) 1096 for h in range(n): 1097 table.append('&'+names[self._table[g][h]]) 1098 table.append('\\\\\n') 1099 1100 # Finish 1101 table.append('\\end{array}') 1102 return ''.join(table) 1103
I thought this was on #10787, but now I see it is not. I'm going to point it here.
I've been waiting on
MathJax
before tackling this, on the hope it has better support for tables.