Dear John, nice to hear from you.
[please forward my answer to sage-devel since I'm not sure I'm allowed to post] > Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:51:27 +0100 > From: John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> > > With a few (preferably native English-speaking) people collaborating, > translating the French book would not be at all hard. Paul, would you > be willing to coordinate a little project to do that? We could divide > the book up into sections and get volunteers to work on each section > (one or more each) and the collate the whole. I have to think about it, and also discuss with my co-authors, since I guess you would need access to the LaTeX source files to make the translation easier. Also we have started to write new stuff, including one chapter on floating-point numbers, and one about graphs. We have to decide how to deal with that. Anyway, what I could offer (if I accept) would be limited to the technical part (access to a svn server, etc) since I'm not native English-speaking. Someone should be responsible of the editorial part (assigning sections, proof-reading, etc). John, would you take that in charge? Best regards, Paul PS: so far our efforts to get a printed edition of the french version failed. French editors are still reluctant to publish a book under a Creative Commons license. Maybe it would be different with an english version. > I would be willing to do some of it. > > John > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Thierry Dumont > <tdum...@math.univ-lyon1.fr> wrote: > > Le 30/10/2010 12:39, Rob Beezer a écrit : > >> > >> > There's already a nice CC-licensed book about Sage written in > >> French: > >>> > >>> http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/ > >>> > >>> Are there any plans to make a print version and/or translations? > >> > >> I have "translated" the French Sage book into Sage worksheets. This > >> was all very experimental and a bit "quick and dirty" in places (ie I > >> probably introduced some errors). Out of respect for the original > >> authors' work I have not distributed this version widely. But I do > >> intend to return to the project and do the format conversion properly, > >> and with more input and involvement from the authors. > >> > >> But having spent four or five days with the source for the book, and > >> with the caveat that my abilities with French are not the greatest, it > >> is definitely the best resource out there for a beginner right now > >> (IMHO). > >> > > Thanks (I am one of 10) :-) > >> > >> If I understand right, Paul Zimmerman organized about 10 authors to > >> each write a chapter about using Sage in their specialty. It is a > >> model that could be repeated in any language, or perhaps a translation > >> of the French work could be translated by a similar team of > >> knowledgeable Sage mathematicians. > >> > > Actually, for the chapter I wrote, programing the examples took a lot of my > > time, may be half of it. I am not sure that translating is very complicated: > > even if you know spanish for example, but not french, with the help of a > > dictionary, it should be possible. > > It tooks us about 5 months to write the book, each author correcting at > > least one other author; ok, it was not a full time job, but.... And we have > > some nice material to help us : a svn server, Makefiles, scripts and so on, > > so that "compiling" the book also tests the examples. I do not know what > > Paul Zimmerman would say, but this material (Makefile, scripts...) should be > > available to any translator. > > > > Yours > > t.d. > >> > >> Rob > >> > > > > -- > > 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 > > > -- 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
