On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2008, at 3:39 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> As for the option to use Maple/Mathematica, I think as long as there >>> is relatively good conversion of expressions, it's best to just let >>> the user call the Maple/Mathematica command directly. Otherwise, you >>> need to write code to detect if one is installed and call it with >>> a fallback plan if they're not. >> >> I don't envision any autodetection or anything like that. What I >> envision >> is that the integrate command has an option algorithm='maple', say, >> that >> does the integral transparently using maple, e.g., >> >> sage: integrate(sin(x)*cos(x)*x) >> (sin(2*x) - 2*x*cos(2*x))/8 >> sage: integrate(sin(x)*cos(x)*x, algorithm='maple') >> (sin(2*x) - 2*x*cos(2*x))/8 >> sage: integrate(sin(x)*cos(x)*x, algorithm='mathematica') >> (sin(2*x) - 2*x*cos(2*x))/8 >> sage: integrate(sin(x)*cos(x)*x, algorithm='sympy') >> (sin(2*x) - 2*x*cos(2*x))/8 >> sage: integrate(sin(x)*cos(x)*x, algorithm='axiom') >> (sin(2*x) - 2*x*cos(2*x))/8 >> > > Ah, I like that option. To be honest, I haven't even really tried > Maple from > Sage yet. To be honest, one of the reasons I want to switch to Sage > for is > the LaTeX export. Maple's is awful and talking to the developers, they > have > no interest in improving it. I've been contemplating the possibility of > exporting the notebook to LaTeX, but that requires that I get more > familiar > with the notebook code.
That has been on my todo list forever, repeatedly. I gave it also as a student project once, but the student turned out to not know programming. > The code in, > > http://www.iwriteiam.nl/html2tex.html > > may be useful as a starting point. It's GPL so that's good. > > Cheers, > > Tim. > > --- > Tim Lahey > PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering > University of Waterloo > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
