> Hi everyone,
>
> Some time ago, I asked for a framework that would allow me to write valid
> latex math from Pharo
> (in a similar way that I used to do with pylatex in Python) see the thread
> here:
> http://forum.world.st/Generate-latex-from-Pharo-td4826739.html.
>
> Damien Cassou pointed me the Pillar-ExporterLaTeX package to do it, so I
> used it to create the
> Mathex package that you can get here:
> https://github.com/juliendelplanque/mathex
> or by evaluating:
>
> Metacello new
>     baseline: 'Mathex';
>     repository: 'github://juliendelplanque/mathex/repository';
>     load.
>
> for tests:
>
> Metacello new
>     baseline: 'MathexTests';
>     repository: 'github://juliendelplanque/mathex/repository';
>     load.
>
> From now, it does not support all the possible math commands of latex but
> you can already do things like:
>
> (Phi equal: ((1 asMathex + 5 asMathex sqrt) // 2)) equation asString.
>
> and get:
>
> \begin{equation}
> \phi=\frac{ 1 +\sqrt{ 5 }}{ 2 }\end{equation}
>
> Also, and in fact this is the kind of feature I was looking for, you can
> export a Matrix into latex math like this:
>
> (Matrix diagonal: #(42 42 42)) asMathex asString.
>
> Each command/operation is represented by an object in the package.
> To understand how I implemented that have a look on the
> MObject>>#doesNotUnderstand: where I explain it.
>
> I will soon work on an importer that will create, automatically, latex
> command as objects from a file that describe
> how to do it.
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> Hope this package could helps someone else one day.