variable ordering in TeXForm
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- Subject: [mg104195] variable ordering in TeXForm
- From: pfb <pf.buonsante at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:34:13 -0400 (EDT)
Hi all, I'm currently using TeXForm to export formulae from Mathematica (5) into a LaTeX document. The translation seems pretty good, but I'm annoyed by the ordering chosen by Mathematica for sorting e.g the monomials of a polynomial. I'd like to get what TraditionalForm produces, but instead I get the opposite ordering. Consider for instance the polynomial 6x^2-7x+2. The usual output of Mathematica reverses the order, writing 2-7x+6x^2. However, when asked for the TraditionalForm of either polynomial above, it gives what I expect, i.e. (a graphically fancy version of) the first ordering. On the other hand, TexForm reverses the ordering, similar to the usual output. Is there a simple way to get around this? By the way, I wonder why this is the (hopefully hackable) default behaviour. I thought that pretty much everybody would be happy with a latex code reproducing the traditional form when plugged into a latex document... Thanks a lot for any help. Francesco