Re: saving a notebook into LaTeX
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- Subject: [mg38471] Re: saving a notebook into LaTeX
- From: "m. r." <schaferk at bellsouth.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:54:12 -0500 (EST)
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greetings: i agree the LaTex conversion is not 'out of the box' complete, however, i was able to get it working on my iMac using MacOS 8.6 with a little reading and effort. a previous echo of your questions about getting things to work appears: http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2000/Aug/msg00276.html at this URL (P.J. Hinton) directs the reader to consider the header file that is generated in the latex source file and other files. bottom line: TeX has to be configured correctly with files (*.fd) and styles files. i know it works (at least on iMac with OS 8.6 and it works nicely.) sincerely, m. r. Nigel King wrote: > > 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! > >