[Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-2985569 ] {a}\over{b} is obsolete

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Bugs item #2985569, was opened at 2010-04-11 15:49
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>Status: Closed
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Peter Simons (peti)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: {a}\over{b} is obsolete

Initial Comment:
The expression "tex(a/b);" generates the following output:

  $${{a}\over{b}}$$

LaTeX produces a warning when processing that expression. Fractions should be marked up as \frac{a}{b} instead.

I'm using the following version:

Maxima version: 5.20.1
Maxima build date: 10:10 4/1/2010
Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Lisp implementation type: SBCL
Lisp implementation version: 1.0.37


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>Comment By: Raymond Toy (rtoy)
Date: 2010-04-17 10:00

Message:
Closing bug.

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Comment By: Peter Simons (peti)
Date: 2010-04-12 10:56

Message:
Yes, having a latex() function to generate renderings suitable for use with
LaTeX would be great.

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Comment By: Jaime E. Villate (villate)
Date: 2010-04-12 10:43

Message:
But TeX does not recognize \frac{ }{ }. What we need is to create a new
function latex( ), in addition to the already existing tex( ) one.

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Comment By: Raymond Toy (rtoy)
Date: 2010-04-11 16:34

Message:
Perhaps the documentation for tex is not clear, but the output of tex is
TeX, not LaTeX.  Although I haven't used TeX in quite some time, I'm pretty
sure \over is valid TeX.

Marking as pending/invalid.

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