Re: saving a notebook into LaTeX
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- Subject: [mg38453] Re: saving a notebook into LaTeX
- From: Nigel King <king at dircon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:20:46 -0500 (EST)
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In <at4ec9$f3t$1 at smc.vnet.net> Jason Miller wrote: > Hello Listers, > I need some help, here. I'm using Mathematica 4.2 on OS X and I'd > like to save a notebook so that I can include it in a LaTeX file. > According to the Wolfram site, Mathematica has a convenient "save as" > option just for this sort of task. Unfortunately, I can't get it to > work for the life of me. The notebook saves, but it won't compile. I think this is an area where Wolfram over extended itself. I also tried to use TeX in the way suggested but gave up because the solution is incomplete. I even went to the trouble of adding my own extensions to TeXSave. I found the the complete result was much too restrictive in how one could use Mathematica or TeX. Now I write in TeX (actually ConTeXt) and copy formula and results over as necessary saving graphs as '.eps' and converting to '.pdf' etc. ConTeXt has a facility for pretty printing Perl, Java, SQL, TeX and MetaPost. I wonder whether an enterprising person will write one for Mathematica Source. > > I use TeXShop, a very standard LaTeX environment for OS X that's > built (I believe) on top of teTeX. Per the 'request' of my LaTeX > compiler, I've located copies of notebook2e.sty and wrisym.sty, but > this doesn't help; the fatal error is something like '! LaTeX Error: > This NFSS system isn't set up properly.' > > Does anybody out there have a slick solution to my problem? It seems > to me that Wolfram should have made this process work out-of-the-box > with standard installations of Mathematica 4.2 and standard > installation of LaTeX utilities. Perhaps I'm missing something. I agree. A facility should not be advertised without reservation if reservations exist. In this facility there are many reservations. > > I hope somebody out there can give me a hand with this. (FWIW, I > have access to latex and Mathematics 4.2 on linux and NT platforms, > too.) My comments only apply to 4.0, but I do not believe much has been done to improve the situation. I am sure Wolfram would have shouted if they had! >