Re: Is Format[ ,TeXForm] broken?
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- Subject: [mg90227] Re: Is Format[ ,TeXForm] broken?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 06:37:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
try MakeBoxes[]
Mathematica will transform the boxes to TeX.
Regards
Jens
Will Robertson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to be able to customise the exporting of my Mathematica
> expressions to LaTeX, but it doesn't seem to work like I expect:
>
> Format[AA,TeXForm]="BB";
> TeXForm[AA]
>
> Results in "\text{BB}". So far so good. But:
>
> TeXForm[AA+x]
>
> Results in "\text{AA}+x". The explicit TeXForm Format isn't applied to
> built-up expressions.
>
> I'm using Mathematica 6.0.2. Is this fixed in 6.0.3?
>
> Now, I can use this to approximate what I want:
>
> Format[AA]="BB"
>
> In this case both TeXForm outputs above show the expected result
> (\text{BB} in both). But I don't really want to do that, because then
> my Mathematica output will get rather messy (I use short names in Mathematica
> and longer macro names in LaTeX to get consistent formatting).
>
> Many thanks,
> Will
>
>