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Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-25T14:03:39Z

Just wanted to comment that it is great to see this discussion. I
would imagine there are a number of us waiting in the wings who are
comfortable with LaTeX and Sage, but not with the various methods of
converting you discuss. Please know that any "automation" of that
process that ends up coming out of this would be much appreciated.

Re: [sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-25T07:47:45Z

Hi Rob,
Rob Beezer escribió:
Thanks for your quick answer and, help and concern about this inquires.
That makes very nice to be part in a so newbie friendly community as Sage.
It seems that I had missed some dependencies and your detailed method
show me that. Now the exporter is working and I can reproduce the same

Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24T22:21:07Z

Hi Offray,

Thanks for the reply. I think we pretty much in agreement on most all
of this.

Yes, I've seen students resist, but then become proponents, especially
with Beamer versus Powerpoint. ;-)

Also, I agree that PlasTeX's statement about splitting the parser and
the renderer is a very good idea and suggests certain possibilities.

Re: [sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24T16:13:36Z

Hi Rob,
Rob Beezer escribió:
Thanks for your quick answer. I will make some comments on each item.
Could you please send me the specific command? may be I'm
misunderstanding something because my outputs doesn't seems as good as
yours.
Yes mouse-fold gives also errors with PlasTeX. In TeXmacs this is a mode

Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24T19:35:24Z

Hi Offray,

Those are very interesting experiments. Thanks for posting them. For
further comparison, I've taken your two examples and run them through
my process. Here are some observations based on that, with the
disclaimer that TeXmacs is new to me.

1. I output both your examples from within TeXmacs using File >

Re: [sage-edu] LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24T12:30:41Z

Hi all,

I tried a complementary approach to Rob's one using PlasTeX[1] (tex4ht
complains a lot about LaTeX files exported by TeXmacs and PlasTeX is
more pythonic that tex4ht because... well is made on python :-P). The
final idea is to have something that takes TeXmacs[2] documents and
converts them as Sage worksheets. For the moment the work flow goes like

SAGE lecturer needed

2009-06-24T11:13:35Z

Hi,
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is looking
for a lecturer to teach an introductory course in python scripting
for science, from 30 August for six weeks as part of the postgraduate
diploma in the mathematical sciences for 2009/10.
Pedagogical skills and good communication skills are very important

Primers: number theory, plotting, limits

2009-06-21T21:09:10Z

Hi all,

A quick announcement to inform you of new(ish) Sage primers: Jose
Guzman completed primers on 2D-plotting and single variable limits in
Sage. I've added a section on diophantine equations to the number
theory primer. These have been posted to the SageDays13 Wiki.

[link]

Re: [sage-edu] ANN: openopt 0.24 - free numerical optimization framework

2009-06-15T16:27:41Z

I've posted an updated spkg here:
[link]
so you can try it by typing
sage -i [link]
Also, could somebody please referee this:
[link]

ANN: openopt 0.24 - free numerical optimization framework

2009-06-15T15:47:35Z

Hi all,
OpenOpt 0.24, a free Python-written numerical optimization framework
with some own solvers and connections to tens of 3rd party ones, has
been released.

BSD license allows to use it in both free opensource and commercial
closed-code software.

Currently we have ~80 unique visitors daily, 15% of the ones visit

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Notebook management instructions

2009-06-13T14:24:03Z

Hi,
[...]
[...]
Nice! There is a lot of decoupling happening into Sage with seems fine
for having a more flexible CAS and with more "bootstrapping". Codenode
is made with Django, but may be in the decoupling it could be more CMS
neutral and for example integrate with Web2py _or_ Django. Having probed

Re: Notebook management instructions

2009-06-12T00:17:33Z

Also, you should know anecdotally that if you use a server for student
notebooks, in general they have full rights over their notebook per
default. Whoever is the admin of course can easily look at them too,
but if you have them "Share" with you that could be what you are
looking for. You could, for instance, require that students of

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Notebook management instructions

2009-06-11T20:22:49Z

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jurgis

[link]
and
[link]
might help.

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Notebook management instructions

2009-06-11T19:59:58Z

where could I find more information -- kind of manual?
I expect some topics to be covered:
how to administer nodebook (manage rights and so on)?
Thanks, interesting info :)

Re: [sage-edu] Notebook management instructions

2009-06-11T15:21:11Z

I have to confess I don't understand your question. In case you are asking about
folders for the notebooks (so you can put different groups of student's
worksheets in them, for example), then that is not yet completely
implemented, as far as I know. I think Mike Hansen is working on it
in the Sage notebook. I think it is implemented in codenode