renewcommand has no effect

[AllenDowney]

To get Data Analysis to translate cleanly, I want to get rid of the \subparagraph commands, which yield improperly nested XML.

I thought I could do that with something like this:

\renewcommand{\subparagraph}[1]{\textbf{#1}\\}

But that has no effect; the subparagraphs get interpreted as if the \renewcommand did not exist.

But if I define

\newcommand{\mysubparagraph}[1]{\textbf{#1}\\}

and replace \subparagraph with \mysubparagraph, that works.

So the behavior of plasTeX does not seem to be consistent with the meaning of these commands in LaTeX.

[tiarno]

A subparagraph is a sectioning command that takes a single argument for its title. But the stuff underneath it belongs to it since it is a section. mysubparagraph is a command that bolds its argument but has no effect on sectioning.

I would think (guess) that subparagraph could be overridden: class subparagraph(Command): args = 'text' def invoke(self,tex): Command.invoke(self,tex)

then you can bold the text in the templates.

untested! --T

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:28 PM, AllenDowney notifications@github.comwrote:

To get Data Analysis to translate cleanly, I want to get rid of the \subparagraph commands, which yield improperly nested XML.

I thought I could do that with something like this:

\renewcommand{\subparagraph}[1]{\textbf{#1}}

But that has no effect; the subparagraphs get interpreted as if the \renewcommand did not exist.

But if I define

\newcommand{\mysubparagraph}[1]{\textbf{#1}}

and replace \subparagraph with \mysubparagraph, that works.

So the behavior of plasTeX does not seem to be consistent with the meaning of these commands in LaTeX.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/AllenDowney/plastex-oreilly/issues/24.

[AllenDowney]

That explains it. Thanks!

But the fix did not work for me. I put this

class subparagraph(Command): 
    args = 'text' 
    def invoke(self,tex): 
        Command.invoke(self,tex) 

in localdefs.py, but I am still getting this

<sect5 id="a0000000022" remap="subparagraph">
</sect5>Accuracy<indexterm>

in the output.

[tiarno]

First I made the class class subparagraph(Base.Command): args = 'text'

and then I had to remove the old subparagraph template and put in a new one:

name:subparagraph

and it works for me.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:05 PM, AllenDowney notifications@github.comwrote:

That explains it. Thanks!

But the fix did not work for me. I put this

class subparagraph(Command): args = 'text' def invoke(self,tex): Command.invoke(self,tex)

in localdefs.py, but I am still getting this

Accuracy in the output. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/AllenDowney/plastex-oreilly/issues/24#issuecomment-7767525.

[AllenDowney]

Got it. Will try it tomorrow.

Thanks again!

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Tim Arnold notifications@github.comwrote:

First I made the class class subparagraph(Base.Command): args = 'text'

and then I had to remove the old subparagraph template and put in a new one:

name:subparagraph

and it works for me.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:05 PM, AllenDowney notifications@github.comwrote:

That explains it. Thanks!

But the fix did not work for me. I put this

class subparagraph(Command): args = 'text' def invoke(self,tex): Command.invoke(self,tex)

in localdefs.py, but I am still getting this

Accuracy in the output. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub< https://github.com/AllenDowney/plastex-oreilly/issues/24#issuecomment-7767525>.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/AllenDowney/plastex-oreilly/issues/24#issuecomment-7770247.

[AllenDowney]

Fixed. Thanks, Tim!