Hello, On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:16 PM, john_perry_usm <john.pe...@usm.edu> wrote: > I looked at a sample chapter; I don't read much Polish at all, but some of > it still makes sense. ;-) More seriously, I liked how some of the graphs are > diagrammed (snake picture) but not too many and the typeface.
I'm really glad you liked it! That was one of our main ideas - to help readers imagine the snake represented by the function (which is complicated for high school student, but thanks to mathematical package drawing it is as simple as drawing linear function). During experiments few years back, we found that it makes the function translations easier to remember and understand. We believe it helps remember the rules when the students actually needs to use them, because they have something to relate the theory to. Probably this is why it took us 3.5 year to complete (well, lets say at least some of it was spent on looking for publisher brave enough to release math books with such illustrations). And yes, 3.5 years ago, we started our work targeting Sage 4.8 (which was current by that time) - and keeping the book up to date during this period was a quite interesting task. We probably wouldn't be able to complete such a big project without some server setup. We actually wrote mercurial hooks that compiled whole book including running Sage and producing ready made pdf when we entered [rebuild] into commit message - then it was commited to same repository so we could diff both pdf, LaTeX and Sage outputs on version updates or text updates. SageTeX also helped us a lot, because almost all results and figures were made real-time, so always up to date and matching what the student will get. > Can I ask what typeface that is? Of course! We used Palatino clone (more exactly it is URW Palladio L with true Small Caps and Old Style Figures for text and Lining Figures for tables, as provided by mathpazo LaTeX package). The sans family is provided by Bera font (Bitstream Vera clone, as provided by berasans LaTeX package) - it is scaled by 0.86 to match x height of URW Palladio L. Monospaced font is Luxi Mono, scaled by 0.95. There are also some extra fonts for math symbols (mosty based on Euler font family) and text symbols (some dingbats-like glyphs), but they are used very rarely. Regards, Andrzej. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
