?? Available help topics: Li2, Li3, Order, acos, acosh, asin, asinh, atan, atan2, atanh, beta, binomial, charpoly, coeff, collect, collect_common_factors, collect_distributed, content, cos, cosh, decomp_rational, degree, denom, determinant, diag, diff, divide, eval, evalf, evalm, exp, expand, factorial, find, gcd, has, inverse, is, lcm, lcoeff, ldegree, lgamma, log, lsolve, map, match, nops, normal, numer, numer_denom, op, operators, power, prem, primpart, psi, quo, rem, series, sin, sinh, sprem, sqrfree, sqrt, subs, tan, tanh, tcoeff, tgamma, time, trace, transpose, unassign, unit, zeta To get help for a certain topic, type ?topic ?print_latex

I am using the ginac-tools package in the debian testing distribution. Ginsh does not list print_latex or print_csrc in response to ??. This is important to me as I use this feature to generate wrapper function for use with Octave (www.octave.org). Ginsh gives the following: peterg@tiree:peterg$ ginsh ginsh - GiNaC Interactive Shell (GiNaC V1.1.0) __, _______ Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, (__) * | Germany. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. ._) i N a C | You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. <-------------' For details type `warranty;'. Type ?? for a list of help topics. parse error, unexpected T_PRINTLATEX, expecting T_SYMBOL or T_TIME or '?' at print_latex

print_latex((y+z)^(-2)); \frac{1}{{(z+y)}^{2}}

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