Typesetting conjugates of variables (that has been passed to
Maxima and back?) is strange. In e.g. Sage 4.2 this did not
happen.
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| Sage Version 4.3.3, Release Date: 2010-02-21 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
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sage: assume(x,'complex')
sage: latex(x.conjugate())
\overline{x}
sage: latex(x.conjugate().factor())
{\rm conjugate}\left(x\right)
/Håkan
Somehow we don't recognize the conjugate function in the string we get
back from maxima, and create a new one. The last line above is the
default latex typesetting for symbolic functions.
I opened a ticket for this:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8345
Thank you.
Burcin