On Mar 21, 7:54 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, meitnik <meit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sorry for my confusion and misunderstanding. Thought the whole Gui was > > all in Javascript. > > The client part, which runs in the web browser, is written in > javascript. The server part is a Python program (a web server). -- from some of the docs I have skimed over, there is info on the web server but cant find much on the client. My previous question was if had Javascript dev friend look at your code will he make sense of it enough to help me. > > > > Is there an RTF version of the Ref guide for starters? > I don't think so. Mike is there a way to generate rtf from ReST/Sphinx? -- thank you. I have been trying to convert via TextEdit the PDF but its not going well. I hate to have to OCR some 4k pages.
> > What precisely do you mean by that? Are you not able to use a > keyboard at all or? -- I can type well for short bursts but not for long periods and not repeating over and over the same thing; my brain/fingers have great problems with spelling speicalized vocabulary like math. I rather focus on the concepts than fighting with my body just inputing code/math symbols etc. Let give a bit more about my background. Since boyhood, I have always noticed and valued visual patterns and grasped and delighted in abstract relationships well but not expressed well via writing or manually due to my disabilities. But orally I can well at a slow pace. The very sentences I write now took about 30 years of hard work and determination to achieve. However doing written math was often not easy due to rubella. I understood math but did poorly on timed limited exams. During high school, my mathematics teacher worked with great imagination and respect to help me really enjoy math to the point he noticed I used math more as a conceptual tool in my creative life, rather than just making it through the next exam. Eventually, he felt I would make a good math teacher doing some research on the side. But what I didn't know was most of the college profs where unwilling to work my disabilities even though often I tutored my fellow math majors towards better grades. Eventually I dropped the math major. But promised myself someday I would return to math. I heard about personal computers coming on for doing mathematics. Perhaps someone would figure out how to do symbolic math on a PC. During the early 90s I was introduced to Mathematica at work (I was a lead software tester/gui designer) and at last I could enjoy math again due to its gui. But due to personal cost and office politics I was not to have access to Mathematica. One day I will. But the price of Mathematica just became higher and higher well beyond my reach. Focused instead on my graphics design as best I could. But never made enough to buy Mathematica. I gave up. Will I create a new proof or solve a long standing problem? Perhaps not, but I do enjoy the beauty of math and exploring equations. Then 6 days ago a friend told me about SAGE. Hope. Enough of me, You have a great back end of a large collection -- and growing -- of math tools/libraries etc. Perhaps taking some time to make inputting math functions/keyword/symbols into a cell might be a win-win for all. I always believed a computer should do the heavy work and allow me to work smart than hard. If you want I can prototype a new gui that would help me and email it to you. Again, thanks for hearing me out. Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
