This happens very often. Someone new user always enters an axiom commmad in a comment with no preceeding text. Then a bug in MathAction causes the command to not be recognized as a command.

Category: Axiom Compiler => MathAction Severity: normal => serious

I modified the regular expressions that scripts ReplaceInlineAxiom?.py and ReplaceInlineReduce?.py use to search for commands embedded in the text. The previous version used a negative look-behind for the ! escape character in combination the start of string ^ character. This test failed if there was no character preceeding the first \begin{axiom} or \begin{reduce}. I simply removed the start of line requirement. As a result \begin it is also now possible to indent equations properly in structured text.

• See SandBox for an example of the use of such indentation.
• Comments that start with commands should now also work.
• Let me know if this causes any unexpected behaviour.
• I am monitoring SandBox and a few other pages to see what sort of problems new users have when then experiment with entering commands. I think/hope that the web site is getting a little easier to understand for the novice.

Status: open => testing

property change

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 05:50:26 -0600 reply