[SciPy-dev] Latex and docstrings

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Tom Grydeland <tom.grydeland at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:12 AM, David Cournapeau <david at silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that some of the docstrings I have written for DCT have been
>> changed to latex format. While I have no issue with having latex in the
>> documentation, I thought the consensus was to use them sparingly in
>> docstrings ?
>
> I knew I had seen this discussion before:
>
> http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/2009-February/010975.html
>
> Now, I'm not suggesting that my efforts in this are of any
> significance whatsoever, but it is annoying to have contributed
> something _upon_request_, and then having the exact same thing
> reverted, even to applause.
>
> If you don't want it, don't ask for it.

Before all the nice Latex disappears, can we rescue it and start a fft
tutorial page in scipy with the collection of all the formulas that
are currently in the docstrings?

I'd rather read rendered Latex than ASCII math expressions.

Josef

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