On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Ronan Paixão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Are there safeguards in place to prevent a student from changing the
> contents of the book?

Yes.

> Also, if the notebook itself is not user-changeable, at least
> temporarily, it would defeat the most of the purpose of making it the
> book inside a notebook.

It is user changeable temporarily.

> I'm not familiar enough with the notebook's authentication and
> authorization schemas to know.

Try going to
   http://sagenb.org/doc/live/tut/tut.html
and browse to some worksheet and try it out.

William

>
> Ronan Paixão
>
> Em Ter, 2008-11-04 às 07:09 -0800, Rob Beezer escreveu:
>> Dan,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.  Yes, I looked closely at SageTex a couple of
>> months ago.  Its a great idea, but I think it maybe does the reverse
>> of what I want. I'd like to have Sage input/commands appear in a
>> worksheet, surrounded by text from the book.  Then a student could
>> read the text, execute the input, and experiment with adjustments to
>> the input - all from within the friendly confines of a Sage
>> worksheet.  So I'd write some Sage input within my LaTeX sources,
>> surrounded by some macro.  Then I'd want the code to survive the
>> conversion to jsMath (easy probably), and then a further conversion to
>> a Sage worksheet (the step I am working on now).  The stumbling blocks
>> now are the links between worksheets, and then working with Sage's
>> auto-numbering scheme for worksheets.
>>
>> If I understand SageTeX right, the Sage code gets evaluated by Sage
>> when you TeX a document and the results get incorporated into your
>> final document.  Do I understand that right?  Or would it aid the
>> process I've described above?
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On Nov 4, 12:57 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 at 09:15PM -0800, Rob Beezer wrote:
>> > > Long-term I would like to add "live" Sage code to my LaTeX sources and
>> > > have them migrate to the worksheets as cells, demonstrating the use of
>> > > Sage for the relevant aspects of linear algebra.  The end result would
>> > > be a "Sage-enhanced" version of the book.
>> >
>> > Do you know about SageTeX?http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sagetex
>> >
>> > Right now, you can include "live" Sage code into LaTeX documents, but I
>> > have no idea about how such things would "migrate". It's very
>> > interesting, though, and I'd really like to see your book morph into a
>> > cool combination of ordinary text and Sage worksheets. Let me know if
>> > something about SageTeX isn't working for you, and I'll see about
>> > changing things.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the inter-worksheet links
>> > that you were primarily asking about...
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
>> > --
>> > ---  Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > -----  KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences
>> > -------  http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake
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William Stein
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University of Washington
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