SympyTeX - a latex package for working with sympy in LaTeX

[t...@physics.otago.ac.nz]

Hi

Sympy is GREAT. I've created a Latex package that automatically
includes sympy output from code blocks embedded
into a document. (its a shameless ripoff of the SageTeX package)

<example>
Using sympy within your \LaTeX document is as easy as $2+2=\sympy
{2+2}$.

You can write a block, and then use the variables defined later in
your code!
\begin{sympyblock}
x = sympy.Symbol('x')
h = sympy.integrate(1+x,x)
\end{sympyblock}
The variable $h$, how can be called using {\verb \sympy{h} }, and you
will get $h = \sympy{h}$. Similarly, the integral of $1+x^4$ is $\sympy
{sympy.integrate(1+x**4,x)}$.
</example>

I find it quite useful, and wondered whether any other folk on this
list might be interested in using it. I have a temporary home for it
at
http://elec.otago.ac.nz/w/index.php/SympyTeX

I must confess to being a LaTeX beginner and python newbie, so please
excuse in advance the poor state of the code and documentation.

Cheers

Tim

[Ondrej Certik]

Hi Tim!

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:09 PM, t...@physics.otago.ac.nz
<t...@physics.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Sympy is GREAT. I've created a Latex package that automatically
> includes sympy output from code blocks embedded
> into a document. (its a shameless ripoff of the SageTeX package)
>
> <example>
> Using sympy within your \LaTeX document is as easy as $2+2=\sympy
> {2+2}$.
>
> You can write a block, and then use the variables defined later in
> your code!
> \begin{sympyblock}
> x = sympy.Symbol('x')
> h = sympy.integrate(1+x,x)
> \end{sympyblock}
> The variable $h$, how can be called using {\verb \sympy{h} }, and you
> will get $h = \sympy{h}$. Similarly, the integral of $1+x^4$ is $\sympy
> {sympy.integrate(1+x**4,x)}$.
> </example>
>
> I find it quite useful, and wondered whether any other folk on this
> list might be interested in using it. I have a temporary home for it
> at
> http://elec.otago.ac.nz/w/index.php/SympyTeX

Awesome, that's excellent! Thanks for sharing that.

>
> I must confess to being a LaTeX beginner and python newbie, so please
> excuse in advance the poor state of the code and documentation.

I am also not really an expert in latex, so here is what I did:

$ git clone git://github.com/tmolteno/SympyTeX.git
$ cd SympyTeX
$ latex sympytexpackage.ins
$ latex example.tex
[...]
(/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def)))

! LaTeX Error: File `makecmds.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Am I missing some latex package? Or should I run some other command to
install sympytex.

Ondrej

[cch]

You can get makecmds packages from www.ctan.org (or via google search)

Put makecmds.sty in $texmf search path, for instance, put it in the
following folder:

/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/makecmds

and then execute

> texhash

to refresh the latex search path.

cch

[Tim Molteno]

I think that this can be resolved by

aptitude install texlive-latex-extra

I'll update the README.

Cheers

Tim

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>
> I am also not really an expert in latex, so here is what I did:
>
> $ git clone git://github.com/tmolteno/SympyTeX.git
> $ cd SympyTeX
> $ latex sympytexpackage.ins
> $ latex example.tex
> [...]
> (/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def)))
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `makecmds.sty' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>
>

--
-------------------------
Dr T.C.A. Molteno
Electronics Research
Department of Physics
University of Otago
http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/elec/

[François Bissey]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ondrej Certik wrote:

This is provided by texlive-latexextra on Gentoo not sure on other distro.
Of course you can download from ctan and install it yourself but that may
not be the best course of action.

Francois