I really two aspects of Robert's proposal:
1. being able to customized TEX-ENVIRONMENT so I could set mine to
\begin{equation}...\end{equation}
2. I really like the idea of being able to output comments that don't
get put in an environment - I like to add comments to any derivation
or symbolic work so that I can make sense of it later or copy and
paste it into a publication.
Ryan
On 7/8/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've attached a patch to cut out the special case for ":="
> > so function definitions are displayed as formulas.
> > That's heavy-handed but I don't see a better way to do it
> > given the organization of the TeX output code.
>
> For the record, one way to resolve this problem is to inspect
> the main operator of an expression for some new property,
> say TEX-ENVIRONMENT, and enclose the TeX-ified expression
> in that. The environment would default to $$ if not specified.
> This inspection would be carried out by TEX1 in src/mactex.lisp.
>
> At present there are 2 special cases in TEX1 (functions and
> %i inputs). Everything else gets $$. I can imagine a couple
> of other special cases for which the TEX-ENVIRONMENT
> property could be assigned, e.g. paragraph("foo bar baz") =>
> no enclosing environment so content is treated as plain text;
> document(<stuff>) => enclosing <stuff> in \begin{document}
> \end{document}. Maybe there are others.
>
> At the moment I don't feel strongly enough about this to go ahead
> and do anything about it. I'll be interested to hear any comments.
>
> Robert
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