On Dec 8, 2007 10:05 PM, Rich Morin <> wrote:
> I'm not a mathematician at all, but I like to try out scripting
> languages that look like they bring something to the table. It
> certainly looks like SAGE qualifies! Also, a friend wrote some
> software a while back in Maple and said that it couldn't easily
> be translated into (say) Ruby. I'm quite willing to believe
> him, but I'm hoping that he'll be able to move it to SAGE...
>
> Anyway, many thanks for putting all this together!
You're welcome. Thanks for writing.
> P.S. Here are assorted nits I noted. Please let me know if you
> find this sort of nitpicking useful. And, if so, what
> format (e.g., patch file) would you prefer that I send?
Actually the format below is fine. I just google'd you and you're
a professional technical editor -- very cool. We could definitely
use more of that to improve the quality of Sage. Anyway,
I made the changes you suggest below and put them all in patches
attached to this trac ticket:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1433
>
>
> .../sage
>
> whenver -> whenever
>
>
> http://sagemath.org/doc/html/tut/node1.html
>
> ... of this documented is ...
> ... of this document is ...
>
> Why not make the CC link clickable?
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>
> free open source math software
> free, open-source math software
>
> ... is distinguished by ...
> ... are distinguished by ...
>
> ... viable free open source alternative ...
> ... viable, free, open-source alternative ...
>
> ... html or pdf ...
> ... HTML or PDF ...
>
> ... notebook click ... within SAGE.
> ... notebook (click ... within SAGE).
\> --
> http://www.cfcl.com/rdm
>
> Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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