On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Simon King<simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote: > > Hi Sage-Devels, > > apparently my new boss is very good in TeX: He showed me a draft (or > better: proof of concept) of a book in pdf format, and when you click > the examples, a gap session pops up and lets you compute these > examples.
Wow, so when I read a random pdf off the web and click on it, then it could run a shell command, e.g., "rm -rf $HOME"? William >Or, if you click some (static) 3d-picture, an application > pops up, and then you can drag the object with the mouse and view it > from all sides. > > This seems pretty cool to me. > > Is it something that sage supports and facilitates (I guess my boss > had to put a lot of hand work in it)? Or have you experience with such > funny tricks? Of course I pointed out to him that one could probably > do similar things with a Sage worksheet, but still, interactive pdf > seems quite appealing to me. > > Best regards, > Simon > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
