Lots of progress this week. Assuming you can get your Latex through the tex4ht processor successfully then the script I have written will quite faithfully convert the output to a Sage worksheet in sws format. Included graphics pass through to the worksheet and if you write tikz/pgf graphics in your latex source then they pass through to the worksheet as SVG graphics. Limited support for combinatorial graphs in tkz-graph format. This should all be usable now, but the interface to tex (two commands at the moment) could change, though it should be easy to adapt to any changes.
Experimentally I can process large documents (ie with multiple sections, subsections) into a tarball that can be installed in your notebook as a collection of linked worksheets, at the price of having to install it as pristine new user (in order to control the worksheet numbering and linking). My 900-page linear algebra text becomes around 100 linked worksheets, comprising 700K as a tarball. This is posted as an example on the project wiki page, though it takes some care to install properly. Thought-du-jour is to have authors handle the tex4ht conversion themselves, with a post-processing hook used to create a tarball. Tarball gets posted at author's site or a Sage site. Routines in the notebook support pulling across the tarball, processing the contents into worksheets, and they get installed in the user's notebook. A recent post here [1] asked about distributing a reference manual for an optional package. Though this was not the idea discussed there, something similar with ReST format files might work along similar lines to extend the library of reference materials available to users in the notebook. Rob Wiki Page w/ Examples: http://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/LatexToWorksheet Script, readme, support files: http://bitbucket.org/rbeezer/tex2sws/ [1] http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/f3ef8b5fa107b73f -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
