Re: TeXForm: slight change in behaviour from version 7 to version 8
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- Subject: [mg118975] Re: TeXForm: slight change in behaviour from version 7 to version 8
- From: Themis Matsoukas <tmatsoukas at me.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 07:17:00 -0400 (EDT)
I don't remember how things worked in version 7 but to me it makes sense that TeXForm["..."] should return \text{...}.
TeXForm["\[Alpha]"] returns
\alpha
b/c as a math character, it only exists in math mode. On the other hand,
TeXForm["if \[Alpha] > 1"]
returns
\text{if $\alpha $ $>$ 1}
as I would expect. TeXForm is not perfect and some manual clean up is usually necessary. In the last expression, aI would write the final result as
\text{if $\alpha > 1$}
tm
PS. There are some extra " and \ in your original post that I don't see in my output. I suspect they are artifacts caused during posting.