[sage-devel] local html documentation missing trailing /index.html

2009-03-18 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi I did sage -docbuild all html to provide local documentation on each of 100 PCs on which I image from a central server. It is a nice way to provide a lab in a low-bandwidth environment with sage and sage docs locally. The docs are viewed via a browser to file:usr/local/src/sage-3.4/dev

[sage-devel] Sage derived distributions

2009-03-18 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, I have a question about how to name the Sage derived distribution that I am doing. Originally I thought I would just use it for one of my projects, but then i realized that in fact I want to use it for all my projects. So I will call it probably Source Python Distribution (SPD) and it will

[sage-devel] Re: Corrections to tutorial

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5500 On Mar 17, 2009, at 1:01 AM, chandra wrote: > > On Mar 17, 1:47 am, William Stein wrote: > >> I think simply appending a text file of changes to this list would be >> fine for starters. >> >> William > > OK. Here is my list so far: > > Su

[sage-devel] Re: Enthought tools install issues

2009-03-18 Thread J Elaych
On Mar 18, 8:37 am, Jaap Spies wrote: > You need the development part of tcl/tk. In Ubuntu you should do > something like apt-get install tk8.4-dev or so. I don't remember > exactly (I'm not on Ubuntu right now). > > Note those packages are experimental! > > Cheers, > > Jaap I followed sequen

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread Carl Witty
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:28 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > This is a very interesting idea, and I think I can do it for ZZ, > QQbar, etc., but I don't know how to deal with GF(p).  That is, in > docstrings, you presumably want GF(p) to appear as is, while to > evaluate latex(GF(p)), indeed to eval

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 18, 1:48 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jason Grout > > wrote: > > > John H Palmieri wrote: > >> On Mar 18, 1:53 am, Martin Albrecht > >> wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote: > > >> In response to William, I think \QQbar makes sense, b

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 sources released

2009-03-18 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi Minh, a patch for this is up for review at trac #5563. Thanks for reporting it. Cheers, gsw --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegrou

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 sources released

2009-03-18 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi Minh, a patch for this is up for review at trac #5563. Thanks for reporting it. Cheers, gsw --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegrou

[sage-devel] Re: Bug in inverse_laplace?

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Golam, > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Golam Mortuza Hossain > wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Firstly, let me thank you for this wonderful >> effort. I have been using Sage for last six months >> almost exclusively and I must say that I am r

[sage-devel] Re: p-adic precision loss in charpoly

2009-03-18 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 13 Mrz., 01:24, dmharvey wrote: > -- > | Sage Version 3.4, Release Date: 2009-03-11                         | > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        | > ---

[sage-devel] Re: Bug in inverse_laplace?

2009-03-18 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Golam, On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > > Hi All, > > Firstly, let me thank you for this wonderful > effort. I have been using Sage for last six months > almost exclusively and I must say that I am really > impressed by Sage. > > While computing the following i

[sage-devel] Bug in inverse_laplace?

2009-03-18 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi All, Firstly, let me thank you for this wonderful effort. I have been using Sage for last six months almost exclusively and I must say that I am really impressed by Sage. While computing the following inverse Laplace transform, I get a mysterious error. --

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear William, > Why not have some special shortcut so that we can typeset any ring > using Sage itself. E.g., > in answer to your question "what should CDF" typeset as, I answer > > sage: latex(CDF) > > Then we can argue about what latex(CDF) should be in Sage instead... > Building the d

Fwd: [sage-devel] 3.4 build failure

2009-03-18 Thread William Stein
Hi Clint, Any thoughts? Feel free to just say "argh, not enough info" or "upgrade to 3.9!", which is probably what I would do. -- Forwarded message -- From: John Cremona Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:21 AM Subject: [sage-devel] 3.4 build failure To: SAGE devel The old probl

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
2009/3/18 William Stein : > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> >> John H Palmieri wrote: >>> On Mar 18, 1:53 am, Martin Albrecht >>> wrote: On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote: >>> >>> In response to William, I think \QQbar makes sense, but I'm not sure >>

[sage-devel] Re: website: tracking download activity & more

2009-03-18 Thread Jason Grout
> New page since a couple of days: > http://sagemath.org/tour-graphics.html ... I want to expand this > (double or more) .. any ideas? If so, please send me the code and a > short description. What's especially missing is 3d stuff, diff > equations, vector fields or just "combinatorial"/"coding th

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Sage 3.4 OS 10.4 PowerPC Install Error

2009-03-18 Thread Justin Walker
On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Georg S. Weber wrote: > > Hmmph, > > just having sent my post an re-reading it, the ..."usr/local/bin/"... > in my PATH suddenly seems not to be so innocent as I had thought. > Thank again for pointing this out to me. Good catch :-} I think the rule is that if you

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Sage 3.4 OS 10.4 PowerPC Install Error

2009-03-18 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hmmph, just having sent my post an re-reading it, the ..."usr/local/bin/"... in my PATH suddenly seems not to be so innocent as I had thought. Thank again for pointing this out to me. Cheers, gsw --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-dev

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Sage 3.4 OS 10.4 PowerPC Install Error

2009-03-18 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 17 Mrz., 23:59, Justin Walker wrote: > On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Georg S. Weber wrote: > > > I'm sorry to hear this. > > > What exactly is that "libintl.3.dylib" problem you mention about? > > I've lost track of the beginning of this thread, but if I understand   > things correctly, the p

[sage-devel] website: tracking download activity & more

2009-03-18 Thread Harald Schilly
Hey all, long time since my last update about activities from the website. That's mainly because not much has happened. There was a valley during Christmas holidays and only a couple of new referring sites that brought traffic. The most comes still from google, then sites like stumbleupon, reddit

[sage-devel] Re: Vector over GF(2) and the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm

2009-03-18 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Ryan Hinton wrote: > After I made the (now hotly-debated :-) enhancement to the > misnamed/misplaced Polynomial.is_primitive method, my next performance > bottleneck was the very clean implementation of the Berlekamp-Massey > algorithm in sage/matrix/berlekamp_massey.py

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > John H Palmieri wrote: >> On Mar 18, 1:53 am, Martin Albrecht >> wrote: >>> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote: >> >> In response to William, I think \QQbar makes sense, but I'm not sure >> about CDF: Carl had good questions abo

[sage-devel] Re: Broken links on reference

2009-03-18 Thread Harald Schilly
I tried to create a rewrite rule (that would have solved this by telling everyone a "301" error and the new url) but I give up. I'll never understand apache ... :\ you can't tell them directly, there is something called webmaster central and i use sitemaps.org to tell them about the update frequen

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
I think that $\mathbb{F}_{p}$ is now pretty universal, and the old "Galois Field" GF seem a bit old-fashioned -- mathematical notation prefers single letters, perhaps in fancy fonts, while computer languages prefer longer names with fonts! So I would be happy for the command \GF{p} to look like $

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 18, 11:47 am, Jason Grout wrote: > John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Mar 18, 1:53 am, Martin Albrecht > > wrote: > >> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote: > > > In response to William, I think \QQbar makes sense, but I'm not sure > > about CDF: Carl had good questions about it, and

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread Jason Grout
John H Palmieri wrote: > On Mar 18, 1:53 am, Martin Albrecht > wrote: >> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote: > > In response to William, I think \QQbar makes sense, but I'm not sure > about CDF: Carl had good questions about it, and besides, it's not > standard mathematical notation.

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 18, 1:53 am, Martin Albrecht wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote: In response to William, I think \QQbar makes sense, but I'm not sure about CDF: Carl had good questions about it, and besides, it's not standard mathematical notation. I don't know which other ones from

[sage-devel] Broken links on reference

2009-03-18 Thread kcrisman
Harald et al., Using search on the main page leads to lots of references under www.sagemath.org/doc/ref but now that is www.sagemath.org/doc/reference Basically anything under the old "node" style is broken, which is a lot, unfortunately also in outside refs - but for now in the Google searches.

[sage-devel] Vector over GF(2) and the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm

2009-03-18 Thread Ryan Hinton
After I made the (now hotly-debated :-) enhancement to the misnamed/misplaced Polynomial.is_primitive method, my next performance bottleneck was the very clean implementation of the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm in sage/matrix/berlekamp_massey.py. I noticed that NTL has an implementation of this

[sage-devel] Re: #5535

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
2009/3/18 Ryan Hinton : > > The is_primitive issues is now described in trac #5561. Owners are welcome! And I have rebased (and slightly improved) #5140, so reviewers are welcome there too. [Ryan, we do not bother too much about ownership of tickets, but reviewers are crucial. I hope to review

[sage-devel] Re: #5535

2009-03-18 Thread Ryan Hinton
The is_primitive issues is now described in trac #5561. Owners are welcome! John Cremona wrote: > I hope I did not offend anyone, least of all someone who had provided > a patch which makes a useful efficiency improvement! But as Martin > invited all sage-devel to look at that code, I did! > >

[sage-devel] Re: #5535

2009-03-18 Thread Ryan Hinton
Very good. Thank you for taking a look at the code -- and no offense taken: I just didn't know what to do next! I will leave the is_irreducible() bug/definition for #5140 and create a new ticket for is_primitive including the comments from John and C.Witty. I'll leave it unassigned for now.

[sage-devel] Re: #5535

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
PS I found that #5140 already addresses related issues, and contains a patch by me for the is_irreducible() bug. the patch needs review, and that explains why (1) I remembered already fixing it and (2) why it is not fixed. I will rebase that patch to 3.4 and then invite reviewers. John 2009/3/

[sage-devel] Re: #5535

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
I hope I did not offend anyone, least of all someone who had provided a patch which makes a useful efficiency improvement! But as Martin invited all sage-devel to look at that code, I did! I'll be happy to provide a patch for the bug in is_irreducible for rational polys. (I call it a bug, thoug

[sage-devel] Re: #5535

2009-03-18 Thread Ryan Hinton
Unfortunately, I don't know what on earth is_primitive() is doing there. I didn't put it there. I wrote the patch to as a performance enhancement to the _existing_ is_primitive implementation. is_primitive was there already, so the current ticket is probably not the best place to discuss

[sage-devel] Re: How to delete useless cell on the notebook

2009-03-18 Thread Jason Grout
Stan Schymanski wrote: > To delete a whole section of the notebook, I type in something like > "#begin deletion" in the first cell and something like "#end deletion" > in the last cell, evaluate both, then click on the "Edit" button (upper > right corner of the notebook), and delete all the t

[sage-devel] Re: completing the doc changeover

2009-03-18 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear John, > > May I suggest to put all these tips and tricks in a single place instead > > of > > spreading them through the mailing list and irc. The best tool for this is > > certainly the wiki. I started such a page on > > > >http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/HelpOnTheDoc > > > >

[sage-devel] Re: How to delete useless cell on the notebook

2009-03-18 Thread Stan Schymanski
Here is what I do: To delete a single cell, I delete all the contents, then press backspace once more and the cell is gone. For an html cell created by option-clicking, I delete all the contents and then do a shift-enter. To delete a whole section of the notebook, I type in something like "#b

[sage-devel] Re: Enthought tools install issues

2009-03-18 Thread Jaap Spies
JLeo wrote: [...] > ActiveState Tcl) and set the appropriate variables (TK_INCLUDE_PATH, > TK_LIBRARY, TK_WISH) or disable VTK_USE_TK. > Call Stack (most recent call first): > CMakeLists.txt:831 (INCLUDE) > > > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! > Error configuring VTK > > real

[sage-devel] How to delete useless cell on the notebook

2009-03-18 Thread Guan Guofeng
How to delete useless cell on the notebook? The empty cell form takes alot of space. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For

[sage-devel] Re: completing the doc changeover

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
2009/3/18 Florent Hivert : > > Dear All, > > May I suggest to put all these tips and tricks in a single place instead of > spreading them through the mailing list and irc. The best tool for this is > certainly the wiki. I started such a page on > >http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/HelpO

[sage-devel] Re: completing the doc changeover

2009-03-18 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear All, May I suggest to put all these tips and tricks in a single place instead of spreading them through the mailing list and irc. The best tool for this is certainly the wiki. I started such a page on http://wiki.sagemath.org/combinat/HelpOnTheDoc Right now it is rather small

[sage-devel] Re: completing the doc changeover

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
2009/3/18 Carl Witty : > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:35 AM, John Cremona >> Therefore (if I am right) there needs to be a planned procedure for >> completing the ReSTification of Sage. For a start, is there anywhere >> a list showing which files have not yet been converted? > > You can generate

[sage-devel] Re: completing the doc changeover

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
2009/3/18 Simon King : > > Hi! > > On Mar 18, 1:35 pm, John Cremona wrote: >> I assume that all sage source files which have not yet been converted >> to the new ReST format should go through that process, ... > > Can someone please point me to a reference explaining the ReST format? http://docu

[sage-devel] Re: completing the doc changeover

2009-03-18 Thread Simon King
Hi! On Mar 18, 1:35 pm, John Cremona wrote: > I assume that all sage source files which have not yet been converted > to the new ReST format should go through that process, ... Can someone please point me to a reference explaining the ReST format? Cheers, Simon --~--~-~--~~--

[sage-devel] Re: completing the doc changeover

2009-03-18 Thread Carl Witty
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:35 AM, John Cremona > Therefore (if I am right)  there needs to be a planned procedure for > completing the ReSTification of Sage.  For a start, is there anywhere > a list showing which files have not yet been converted? You can generate such a list for yourself, using

[sage-devel] completing the doc changeover

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
I assume that all sage source files which have not yet been converted to the new ReST format should go through that process, and soon, for the following reasons at least: (1) Sage currently has two different conventions for docstring format simultaneously, which is stupid and offputting to new co

[sage-devel] dollar signs in our ReST

2009-03-18 Thread William Stein
Hi Mike Hansen (cc: sage-devel), I am getting a lot of complaints about docstrings not being allowed to use $$'s instead of -- or as a synonym for ticks for math mode. Thoughts? I would *love* to also allow dollar signs. Not allowing them just messes with people's training so much. William --

[sage-devel] 3.4 build failure

2009-03-18 Thread John Cremona
The old problem with Atlas failing to build on Bill Hart's machine is still with us: The machine was otherwise idle during the relevant period. Failed to build ATLAS. ATLAS failed to build for the 1-th time, possibly because of a loaded system, so we will automatically try again up to 4 more tim

[sage-devel] Re: what TeX macros should be available for docstrings? [was Re: LaTeX in docstrings]

2009-03-18 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Tuesday 17 March 2009, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Mar 17, 12:03 pm, Carl Witty wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, John H Palmieri > >> > >> wrote: > >> > Well, I've been trying to modify 'latex_preamble' in sage/doc/commo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 sources released

2009-03-18 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:29 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > Hello folks, > > after more delay than hoped for here goes the final 3.4. Sources are > available from > > http://www.sagemath.org/src/ The 3.4 source distro builds fine under x86 Debian 5.0 (testing) with the following architecture: *** Beg