On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:48 PM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Surely the problem is (and it will get worse not better as Sage > improves ;)) that users just may not know which constituents > (3rd-party packages, i.e.spkgs) their Sage session has used. Are we > asking that our users take the trouble to find out (using lots of ? > and ?? commands) the complete set of packages they have used? I fear > that this will not be normal practice. I am not too upset that I may > read a paper which says "Let E be the elliptic curve ...., whose rank > (according to Sage [full Sage citation]) is 29." without knowing that > the rank was actually computed by eclib. But the authors of much > larger components (dare I say Maxima?) might not like it. > > I don't see an easy solution. Perhaps we could have a "full_citation"
I wonder if the following idea might be helpful. Say I compute the rank of an elliptic curve using SAGE (which calls eclib) and want to attribute the result. I save the commands which were needed to do the computation and restart SAGE. Someone (not me) writes a clever script which simply parses the result of "ps us", picks out the sage jobs started (of which hopefully eclib is one of them), and prints a string summarizing the jobs started. Does anyone know if something like this will work? > global flag which outputs a line whenever a function from any spkg is > used. But I fear that the output would be much too verbose... Or: > Could the notebook have a separate frame attached to each input cell > --which is normally hidden but on opening would give a list of those > spkgs which were used in evaluating the cell? > > John > > 2008/5/27 Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> On May 27, 3:27 pm, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Thoughts? >> >> currently, there is due to an already existing function in R just >> r.citation() ... maybe something simliar for gap and singluar? >> Or, maybe those projects should implement a citation() function on >> their own and on the "sage side" the string representation of the >> interpreter is enhanced so that it shows a description and the >> citation info. >> currently: >> >> sage: print r >> R Interpreter >> sage: singular >> Singular >> sage: print gap >> Gap >> >> lacks that info... >> >> Harald >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
