HI Marshall, Thanks for having a look. I forgot about the "ff" ligature. That is TeX converting consecutive f's into a single character that is the top of the first f morphing into a downstroke for the second f. Eventually it might become a unicode character. Looks slick in Firefox on Linux. But whatever the fonts are on Mac, they come out real swoopy. Its disturbing. ;-) This can be defeated at the source in TeX, I think.
I'm not seeing the "divides" relation looking too weird (Firefox/ Linux). Would you mind sending me a screenshot off list? I think a lot of the look will improve with MathJax - its looking pretty good. Rob On Aug 27, 10:56 pm, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, that's fantastic, really impressive effort. > > Two things I noticed which are presumably mistakes - there is some > weird typesetting of double fs, and what I think should be a symbol > for "x divides y" comes out slightly superscripted and too big. I've > never seen anything like either of them before so I have no guesses > about what's wrong. Both are pretty obvious to me uploading chapter 1 > onto firefox on a mac - maybe its platform specific. > > I really appreciate the effort you are putting in to open texts. > > -Marshall > > On Aug 27, 9:37 pm, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> 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 supported yet in the > > notebook, and > > I've not yet started adding Sage code to the book, but adding compute cells > > is > > possible and feasible right now. Available as the first example on the wiki > > page: http://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/LatexToWorksheet > > > The worksheets are packaged into a single zip file, which the notebook will > > upload and unpack (mostly even in the right order). There is a live compute > > cell at the bottom of each chapter for experiments or annotation via Tiny > > MCE. > > The graphics all begin life as tikz diagrams, so even these have editable > > source > > code. > > > Tom has done a lot of work to modernize the source, since this book was > > originally written in the late 1980's. He had to also update the Historical > > Note about Fermat's Last Theorem. ;-) I'll be working over the next several > > months to add in material about using Sage to study groups, rings, fields, > > etc. > > Any extra non-obvious ideas about how to leverage Sage in the study of > > these > > topics would be appreciated. Reports of any typos or technical problems > > with > > the current state-of-the-art would also be appreciated. > > > I have a few other books in various states of conversion, some have Sage > > code > > already. I'm also going to use Tom's book to further stress-test MathJax, > > which > > has already resulted in two bug-fixes for the MathJax jsMath-compatibility > > extension. I've had help from several people on this, notably Tom Judson, > > Robert Marik, Dan Drake, Minh van Nyugen and Davide Cervone. > > > (I've cross-posted to sage-devel and sage-edu - sorry for the noise if you > > read > > both.) > > > Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@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.
