On 26 December 2011 19:28, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:03 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> 
> wrote:
>> On 24 December 2011 18:27, Sony <skosw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In section 4.2 of the SageLaTeX manual (page 11) explains how to
>>> create a LaTeX document with a Mathematica plot using SageLaTeX.  I
>>> tried the following code but no output is produced.  I get an error
>>> message "Example3 not found."
>>
>> I don't think the interface to Mathematica is particularly well
>> designed. I've had several problems with it in the past, and gave up
>> using it.
>
> What problems?  Are there any corresponding open trac tickets or bug
> reports about your problems?

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10968

Note that another ticket

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9032

which was closed (I gave it positive review), was not a complete cure,
but the patch reduced the number of failures from 12 to 2.

I know the MMA interface was broken for some time, as the optional
packages were not being tested.



> I'm not aware of a single aspect of the Sage <--> Mathematica
> interface that is version or operating system dependent.    I'm not
> saying there aren't any, just that I'm not aware of any.
>
>>  I personally think if we were to provide an interface to
>> Mathematica, it should be using Wolfram Reserach's Mathlink protocol.
>>
>> http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/
>
> A quick google search found a Python interface to Mathematica via
> mathlink here, which you can probably easily install into any copy of
> Sage:
>
>   http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/585/
>
> William

Perhaps, but the WRI GUI or jmath text-based front end seems to work
well for me.

Dave

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