On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:17 AM, kcrisman<kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is amazing. > >> >> The most interesting thing to me is that essentially every single >> mistake he makes is due to Sage not supporting implicit >> multiplication. He must have to fix or edit his input nearly 10 times >> just to fix missing *'s for multiplication. Very interesting. > > Ironically, as one of the people who requested it, I just removed it > from my .sagerc file because I usually ended up needing to use * > anyway. But at that level, and really in calculus too, it is great to > have available - especially for things like plotting. > >> I'm putting "implicit multiplication option in the notebook" on my >> todo list for next month. (We have it on the command line but not in >> the notebook.) > > More power to you - would it be a "togglable" feature, something the > administrator would need to put in some kind of universal rc file, > something user by user...?
I had imagined that it would be an option that individual users would configure for a given worksheet. However, there would also be a global option in a user configuration page to set the *default* for worksheets. If a user downloads a worksheet, and somebody else uploads it, the implicit multiplication option would be preserved (since it is a property of the worksheet). I would like to consider changing the typesetting checkbox to be the same as what I've outlined above. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
