Re: [sage-devel] Textbook converted to Sage worksheets

2010-08-28 Thread Tim Daly
Rob Beezer wrote: I've converted Tom Judson's open-source Abstract Algebra textbook (http://abstract.pugetsound.edu) from Latex to a series of Sage worksheets (one per chapter) with almost no compromises (ie the same source also builds a faithful PDF). Cross-worksheet links are not

[sage-devel] Re: gcd and lcm for field elements

2010-08-28 Thread Sebastian Pancratz
On Aug 27, 1:00 pm, luisfe lftab...@yahoo.es wrote: I have added a new ticket for adding a default gcd and lcm for field elements. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9819 For the case of field elements gcd and lcm methods are not of great interest. However, they can be addecuated for

[sage-devel] on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
This is separation from the thread Those cookies again... at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/a520d6310ceac1b1 Hi David, On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: In my opinion, (and one I think that is shared by Peter

[sage-devel] Re: on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Mike, On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: For whatever it's worth I'd like to say that I emphatically agree that more attention to fixing bugs (presumably at the expense of adding features) would make Sage *much* more viable from my point of view. My point of

[sage-devel] broken latex conversion of simple expression

2010-08-28 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
Dear all, I observed (slightly more complicated example of) this bug in the web reports sage: latex(-(x+1)/(x+2)) \frac{-x + 1}{x + 2} I remember that Burcin fixed some relevant problems recently ( http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9314 ), but similar problem presists. I think that it is

[sage-devel] Re: on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Simon, On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: Hi All! Shouldn't this discussion better go to sage-devel? Yes. I have moved it to sage-devel and opened a separate thread. On 22 Aug., 22:01, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: ...

[sage-devel] Re: Textbook converted to Sage worksheets

2010-08-28 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Tim, Thanks for the reply and the interest in integrating Axiom with this. I think it could be very easy to adapt my conversion process to have any added code cells executed by Axiom in the Sage notebook, either cell-by-cell or as the default language for an entire worksheet. Creating some

[sage-devel] Re: on testing Sage

2010-08-28 Thread kcrisman
Many good comments, Minh. new addition available in the mainline tree. This means that it is conceivable that one has a script or process that automatically does a nightly or daily build and test run through the whole of the latest mainline tree. Contrast the above situation to the current