On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am curious about anyone's experience with lulu.com. Does anyone >> purchased the sphinx Sage tutorial printed at lulu.com: >> >> http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/sage-tutorial/5375513 >> >> ? Does it look good? I guess it will be black & white when printed, do >> the examples and section headers look ok (they are colored in the >> sphinx pdf). >> >> I use sphinx for my notes: >> >> http://certik.github.com/theoretical-physics/book/ > > > Nice! > > I noticed some typos: > > "orthogonal" is misspelled here: > http://certik.github.com/theoretical-physics/book/src/math/integration.html#orthogonal-coordinates > > "usualy" -> "usually" here: > http://certik.github.com/theoretical-physics/book/src/math/other.html#polar-and-spherical-coordinates > > "Whis" -> "This" at > http://certik.github.com/theoretical-physics/book/src/differential-geometry/chapterone.html#covariant-differentiation
Thanks for reporting the typos! It's fixed now. I am now finishing some stuff about perturbation theory+feynman diagrams in QM, I just realized, that the relativistic propagators actually reduce to Green functions for the Schroedinger equation: http://certik.github.com/theoretical-physics/book/src/qft.html#nonrelativistic-propagator so it seems I can derive most of the stuff in regular QM as a nonrelativistic limit of the covariant formulation of the quantum field theory. I always wanted to see how this works, but all the books either do relativistic quantum field theory, or perturbation theory in quantum mechanics, but never show how they relate to each other, I also asked lots of people about this and know one could show me how to actually do it on the paper (talk is cheap, show me the code), so I am very excited about it. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:51 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I don't know about lulu but I do have experience with createspace.com >>> (which is similar I think but the only "vanity press" amazon accepts). >>> Let me know if you want more details. >> >> Yes, I am interested. Does it mean that amazon can also sell books >> from createspace.com? That's even more interesting. >> > > Yes. My understanding is that if a newly published book is self-published then > amazon will now only sell those from createspace.com (which amazon owns). > There may be older books from lulu.com on the amazon.com site, but I think > they have stopped accepting new ones. > > createspace.com has a variety of pricing options (pay some money up > front and the > books are cheaper and you get more royalties...). You get an ISBN > automatically > issued to you for free, but if you want to buy one separately I think you can. > The quality of the text printing is excellent, but all graphics must > be 300dpi or the > image looks pixelated. The pdfs must be 8''x10'' (or one of their other > smaller fixed sizes). After the "proof copy" of the book is accepted (which > requires you to buy a printed copy at a reduced price), it will appear > automatically > on amazon.com a few weeks later. After it is published making changes > is not easy. However, you can take as long as you like to proofread the > revised version and it is very easy to upload a revised version if you > find errors at > that stage. I think to use sphinx for your book would require that you > somehow can > create an 8x10 electronic pdf. I have no idea if/how that could be done. > > You get regular feedback about the royalties by email. I had a hard time with > coertain parts of their website interface with my ubuntu machine and used > my macbook for the cover creation. I guess they have some flash at that > stage of the process? > > The latest Sage Tutorial and my "Differential calculus with Sage" are both > published via createspace. Very nice, thanks for the feedback. I just looked at the sources of your book: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/latex/ it's seems to me it's just a regular latex, so that should work just fine with sphinx, that also produces latex (I'll just tweak the output latex plugin a bit). Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
