On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 at 09:16AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: > That said, Dan, what do you think of using the shell-escape option to > run Sage directly?
I agree with Harald's idea -- if you have lengthy computations in your document and fix a misspelling, it would be annoying to wait while Sage recomputes everything. Also, I think many TeX distributions disable shell-escape by default, and we would have to get users to re-enable it. Also, the shell escape stuff wouldn't work with my current plan for "SageTeX remote", which would use the Sage API to access a remote copy of Sage. Also, I think each shell escape call invokes a new command, which would make it impossible/very difficult to maintain state. Right now, you can repeatedly refer to an existing Sage variable throughout your document; if each shell escape was a blank slate, that would be tedious to type, and increase the running time even more. Dan -- --- Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake
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