That might work; it would be easier than what I was thinking, which would be to do something like put a CITATION section in docstrings that would get read if a citation command was run, or if a verbose- like option was set...although what you are suggesting wouldn't pick up linked libraries would it?
-M. Hampton On May 27, 6:29 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
