[SciPy-dev] Latex and docstrings

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:10 AM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:34 PM, David Cournapeau <david at silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
>> josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> 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 never suggested to remove the latex from the doc, only from the
>> docstring. I agree rendered latex is better than ASCII when put in the
>> scipy.fftpack doc (or tutorial) - I did not know how to do it, that's
>> why I did not remove the latex for now.
>
> Almost none of the scipy sub packages has module level docs, for most
> it's just at most a few paragraphs and then the list of routines.
>
> The tutorials are a mixture of definitions, background material and
> examples, e.g. linalg and signal contain mostly definitions and
> explanations.
>
> I created a stub tutorial page for fftpack,
> http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/docs/scipy-docs/tutorial/fftpack.rst/
> and copied the last correct latex version for dct.
> I latex math doesn't render, so I changed the first two equations to
> the same pattern as the equations are in the signal tutorial which
> works. I also copied the first paragraph from the numpy fft module
> description.,
>
> Also I'm not sure what the section structure should be, but it's setup
> for anyone to correct and add information.

And I haven't linked it yet from the tutorial front page, so will not
yet be included in the docs (as long as it's mostly a stub page)
>
> Josef
>
>
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> David
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