Marky Marc wrote: > Thanks for the many useful answers in this thread from several people. > (And thanks for the book on Rubik's Cube, David Joyner ;-) > > Now, once again please forgive these questions if they're silly. > Firstly, regarding neatly typesetting text and maths, I've tried the > funky javascript editor (shift+click blue bar), but I don't thinks > it's not quite what I'm looking for. Moreover, I haven't found how to > edit text once it's entered. How is this done?
Double-click on the text. > > Preferrably I'd like to enter sage/python code in the form of a self- > documenting program (actually, there's a better term for this, but > I've forgotten it). Literate programming I'd like to have lots of neatly formatted latex > commentary accomanying my sage code, ie I want to be able to > intersperse latex and sage code. I've done this in the past in latex > (and some programming lanuage) with some extra tools and packages that > extract and compile code from a latex document, run it, then retrieve > and typeset the results. > > I've tried using the latex(.) function. It neatly typsets a maths > object, but so far I've only combined it with > text through statements of the form > print ".... %s.... " % latex(object) > which doesn't make for nicely typeset text, headings, piecewise- > defined-equations etc. > > Typing %latex at the start of a cell makes all of that cell's content > interpretted and processed as latex markup -- great for the > commentary, but then I can't switch back to sage commands in the same > cell. > > OK, maybe I should be content with starting a new cell if I want to > switch from latex entry to sage entry. But then, ideally, I could > still refer to a sage object in a latex cell which would render the > referred object as tex in the latex cell. Thus, I wouldn't need to > manually transliterate a rendered sage expression (say) in to latex in > a latex cell containing commentary of a sage cell. > > Am I making sense? Is anything like this possible? You might check out sagetex (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/sagetex.html; updated version at http://bitbucket.org/ddrake/sagetex/ or installed by doing sage -i sagetex-2.1.1 ) It means you are editing a latex document, but you can do all of those things you mentioned above with sagetex. > > Being the first sage material I read, "Sage for Newbies" appeared to > be prepared in a manner that is exactly what I'm looking for. In it > Ted Kosan briefly mentions "speed" and "presentation" "usage > styles", and that the latter usage style was the one in which the book > was prepared, but then he leaves the details of "usage styles" > unexplained and marked only "to be developed". > > Perhaps if Ted Kosan's source file from which "Sage for Newbies" was > generated could be made available I could try and pick up the details > from there? Ted's book was written in OpenOffice. I thought the source file was in the same directory. That book hasn't been updated in probably several years; it may or may not reflect the current nature of Sage. I don't know. > > Now, on other silly topics: > I've switched from using sage 3.2 on my machine to using the > sagenb.org server. It seems the latter has poorer typesetting > abilities than v3.2, eg often (but not always) renders sqrt(.) as "sqrt > (...)" rather than using the usual symbol. Why? Is it something I set? > > Finally, regarding this code: > -------------------- > var('X kappa') > X=sqrt(kappa) > F=exp(X) > show(F/F) > ------------- > On v3.2 on my machine the answer is shown as "1", but the sagenb.org > server tells me it's > e^{2*sqrt(kappa)} as though it were showing F*F. What's going on > here? > In the past few weeks, we've switched to a new system for doing symbolics which is much faster and promises a great future. There are some patches still going in to better handle the typesetting; these issues may be associated with the update. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
