Hi Eric, On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 at 11:44AM -0800, Eric Drechsel wrote: > I'm experimenting with a homework workflow using sagetex. I'd like to > make efficient use of resources, which seems to be a (the?) major > deficiency with sagetex, especially with large documents. > > My initial thought was that by placing each problem in an included > file, I could have my build tool generate individual problem_x.sage > and problem_x.sout files only for problems with changes, and keep the > master tex file as a simple list of includes. I see now that that > can't work, however, at least with my limited knowledge of TeX tricks. > > So I'm asking the group for ideas. Starters: > > 1. Is it possible to have a master document that includes a bunch of > complete subdocuments? If so, one could simply keep the master > document clean of sagetex references, and build each subdocument > separately.
My first thought is, if you're talking about using a master document and compile times for your homework...you have way too much homework. :) I don't know about keeping the master document clean of SageTeX references, but by using \include, you can keep things separated, and you can even compile only part of the document using \includeonly. One thing you can do with SageTeX to make things go faster is to use the pause and unpause commands -- \sagetexpause and \sagetexunpause. Commands between those two don't get run when you run Sage on the .sage file. (SageTeX literally just comments those sections out in the .sage file.) Actually, with the stuff I've done, the most time-consuming part of running Sage on the .sage file is simply startup time. Once it starts executing the commands, it generally goes really fast, but starting Sage takes a while. I'll think about your per-file ideas, and about some kind of \includeonly stuff. Right now, though, it works document-wide. What would you like to see? Can you describe some commands or functionality that you would find helpful? Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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