On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Marky Marc <marcahr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I'm brand new to sage and have just read "Sage for Newbies". Thanks > Ted kosan for that. I have several questions. > > Immediately I wanted to do some work with sage and am loath to just do > maths without documenting things as I go. Thus I really want to know > how to use "Usage Styles", which are mentioned in Kosan's book but not > documented yet. Where can I get info on "Usage Styles"?
Did he mean http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ ? I can't find the discussion of "usage stlyes" at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/tkosan/newbies_book/ > > Or, at the very least, I'm happy to use print statements, but how do I > print arbitrary TeX math's for markup by jsMath? (ie just as > documentation, not by using show(.) on objects.) Have you read the tutorial? http://www.sagemath.org/doc/tutorial/index.html Maybe you are looking for the latex(...) command? > > Also, can I expect to be able to use scipy methods from sage, or does > sage generally replace/wrap-up these with its own methods? Where's a > good reference to sage's libraries? You can use Sage's wrappers to scipy or scipy directly. http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/ > > Finally, how do I assert variables to be real (or imaginary, or > whatever)? I want to do this to so I can find the complex conjugate of > a symbolic expression by asserting that a variable in the expression > is real. This should be in the tutorial or reference manual. > > Thanks, and sorry if the questions are stupid, Good questions. Hope you have fun with Sage! > Marc > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
