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How latex Formats Names

Description

 • When latex processes a Maple object of type name it makes various tests to see if special processing is desirable.  This allows LaTeX to produce standard mathematical output in most situations.
 • On encountering a name, latex first tests to see if the given name refers to an entry in the table latex/special_names.  If so, that entry's value is used. This is how Pi is converted to pi, for example.
 • Next, latex checks to see if the given name is contained in the set latex/greek.  If it is, then a backslash is prepended to its value. This allows names like "alpha" and "beta" to be printed as Greek symbols.
 • Then, latex checks to see if the given name is contained in the set latex/mathops.  If it is, then a backslash is prepended to its value. This allows function names like "log" and "cos" to be printed correctly without further processing.
 • The fonts used by latex are controlled by two variables: latex/csname_font, which is initially set to \it, and latex/verbatim_font, which is initially set to \tt. The former is used for printing multi-character names that do not require back-quoting; the latter is used for those names that do.
 • The latex command searches for special function formatting rules before it searches for special name formatting rules.  See latex/functions for more information.

Examples

 > $\mathrm{latex}\left(\frac{3\mathrm{π}}{I}\right)$
 -3\,i\pi
 > $\mathrm{latex}\left(\mathrm{Total_profit}\mathrm{Rate}\right)$
 {\it Total\_profit}\,{\it Rate}
 > $\mathrm{latex}\left(\frac{\mathrm{Γ}\left(x\right)}{\mathrm{γ}}+\frac{\mathrm{ψ}}{\mathrm{β}}\right)$
 {\frac {\Gamma \left( x \right) }{\gamma}}+{\frac {\psi}{\beta}}