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Yes, that's normal: the backslash character in a string is interpreted as an escape character for special commands; for instance \f stands for an ASCII formfeed. To avoid this and restore the standard LaTeX interpretation one has to type a double backslash, as you did. An alternative is to prefix the string with r (for "raw" string):
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Yes, that's normal: the backslash character in a string is interpreted as an escape character for special commands; for instance \f in \frac stands for an ASCII formfeed. To avoid this and restore the standard LaTeX interpretation one has to type a double backslash, as you did. An alternative is to prefix the string with r (for "raw" string):
show(LatexExpr(r"\frac{x}{\cos(x)}"))