On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:21 PM, William Stein wrote:
> > No worries. This will get sorted out. Burcin is sharing his opinion, > but it isn't the law or anything, and Sage development is not done by > "dictators". > > I would like to hear more from other users if anybody else has an > opinion. > > -- William I'm in complete support of Golam on this. He and I have similar needs on this issue. Plus, as I've stated before, outputting the D notation to LaTeX isn't particularly useful since it isn't well recognized so any paper or thesis using it would first have to explain it. Given paper size constraints, this isn't practical. Burcin states that Maple uses this notation for partial derivatives and while it can, it doesn't always and there is a command to convert to the standard notation. What I've found is that most average users use standard notation while the people work develop Maple packages prefer the D notation. A big problem is that people aren't used to reading the D notation. I can read complex examples in the standard partial derivative notation quickly, while I will spend a minute or two on each line that uses D notation. The other problem with the D notation is that it doesn't match textbooks for teaching purposes. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
