[sage-devel] nice mesh lines in jmol

2009-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
A few days ago I posted a query to the jmol mailing list about getting nice mesh lines in jmol that we could make pretty arbitrary, like in http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/5511/mesh_function.jpeg (see trac #5511 for the code for that figure). Two people have responded and

[sage-devel] Re: webMathematica 3 -- mathematica's take on web-based "manipulate"

2009-10-21 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 22, 2:10 am, Jason Grout wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > > Mathematica released their web-based *manipulate* implementation: > > >          http://wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/ > > > There are a few dozen examples.   They are now ahead in that they > > allow for somethin

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread Nils Bruin
On Oct 21, 8:42 pm, William Stein wrote: > Did you run "make test"?   I'm curious if everything works. yes, one error: File "/usr/local/sage/4.1.2/devel/sage/sage/modules/ vector_double_dense.pyx", line 663: sage: v.stats_kurtosis() Expected: -1.23 Got: doctest:106: SyntaxWarning: a

[sage-devel] Re: webMathematica 3 -- mathematica's take on web-based "manipulate"

2009-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Mathematica released their web-based *manipulate* implementation: > > http://wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/ > > There are a few dozen examples. They are now ahead in that they > allow for something > like our web-based interacts, but without any

[sage-devel] webMathematica 3 -- mathematica's take on web-based "manipulate"

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
Hi, Mathematica released their web-based *manipulate* implementation: http://wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/ There are a few dozen examples. They are now ahead in that they allow for something like our web-based interacts, but without any login required. However, I think our 3d

[sage-devel] Re: including @interact examples in documentation

2009-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Oct 21, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> William Stein wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jason Grout >>> wrote: (Yet again) I tried to pull up an @interact from the wiki and it didn't work because it had not been updated to keep up

[sage-devel] Re: including @interact examples in documentation

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 21, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jason Grout >> wrote: >>> (Yet again) I tried to pull up an @interact from the wiki and it >>> didn't >>> work because it had not been updated to keep up with the changes to >>> syntax

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Nils Bruin wrote: > > I dropped the file into $sageroot/local/lib, made the symbolic link > ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.12 libstdc++.so.6 > and ran sage in my by now weird hybrid binary install with a few spkgs > compiled from source and, surprisingly, > NO ERRORS! So

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread Nils Bruin
I dropped the file into $sageroot/local/lib, made the symbolic link ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.12 libstdc++.so.6 and ran sage in my by now weird hybrid binary install with a few spkgs compiled from source and, surprisingly, NO ERRORS! So apparently, the locally compiled files run quite happily with th

[sage-devel] Re: target="_blank" when opening worksheet

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Bill Page wrote: > > William, > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:04 PM, you wrote: >> >> Even better -- if you try >> >>  http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/patches/sagenb/sagenb-0.3.5.spkg >> >> then you'll get the newest testing version of the notebook, whi

[sage-devel] Re: Jmol in 4.1.2

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:54 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > Dear sage-devel, > > I'm having trouble with jmol from the command line in 4.1.2 and > 4.2.alpha0.  E.g., > sage: var('A,B,C') > (A, B, C) > sage: implicit_plot3d(sin(A)*cos(B)+sin(B)*cos(C)+sin(C)*cos(A), > (A,-2*pi,2*pi),(B,-2*pi,2*pi),(C,-2*

[sage-devel] Re: including @interact examples in documentation

2009-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> (Yet again) I tried to pull up an @interact from the wiki and it didn't >> work because it had not been updated to keep up with the changes to >> syntax in Sage. Are there any objections to making a file of the >> @

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Nils Bruin wrote: > > On Oct 21, 10:08 am, William Stein wrote: > >> Would you be willing to test taking a fresh install of the fedora 11 >> binary and dropping >> libstdc++ from Fedora 11 (etc.) into your local/bin/? > > $sage_root/local/lib I presume. Yes. >

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread Nils Bruin
On Oct 21, 10:08 am, William Stein wrote: > Would you be willing to test taking a fresh install of the fedora 11 > binary and dropping > libstdc++ from Fedora 11 (etc.) into your local/bin/? $sage_root/local/lib I presume. Sure. Can I get the appropriate libstdc++ from somewhere? Is there an i

[sage-devel] Re: Category review: what's the category of a category?

2009-10-21 Thread David Kohel
What about the category of categories (with functors as morphisms)? --David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more

[sage-devel] Re: notebook() changes the working directory

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > This has been true in Sage for a long time, and I've always found it > mildly annoying: > > $ cd /some/random/directory > $ sage > -- > | Sage Version 4.2.alpha0, Relea

[sage-devel] notebook() changes the working directory

2009-10-21 Thread John H Palmieri
This has been true in Sage for a long time, and I've always found it mildly annoying: $ cd /some/random/directory $ sage -- | Sage Version 4.2.alpha0, Release Date: 2009-10-16 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and

[sage-devel] Re: including @interact examples in documentation

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > (Yet again) I tried to pull up an @interact from the wiki and it didn't > work because it had not been updated to keep up with the changes to > syntax in Sage.  Are there any objections to making a file of the > @interact examples so that i

[sage-devel] Re: including @interact examples in documentation

2009-10-21 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 21, 2:54 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > (Yet again) I tried to pull up an @interact from the wiki and it didn't > work because it had not been updated to keep up with the changes to > syntax in Sage.  Are there any objections to making a file of the > @interact examples so that it is easy to s

[sage-devel] Re: target="_blank" when opening worksheet

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Page
William, On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:04 PM, you wrote: > > Even better -- if you try > >  http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/patches/sagenb/sagenb-0.3.5.spkg > > then you'll get the newest testing version of the notebook, which (1) > doesn't have the opens in a new window behavior, and (2)

[sage-devel] including @interact examples in documentation

2009-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
(Yet again) I tried to pull up an @interact from the wiki and it didn't work because it had not been updated to keep up with the changes to syntax in Sage. Are there any objections to making a file of the @interact examples so that it is easy to spot when they need to be updated through norma

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:08 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Nils Bruin wrote: >> >> Just a datapoint that might provide useful feedback for those who are >> trying to make binary installs a smooth experience: >> >> I tried to install 4.1.2 on a Fedora 10 (i686) lapt

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Nils Bruin wrote: > > Just a datapoint that might provide useful feedback for those who are > trying to make binary installs a smooth experience: > > I tried to install 4.1.2 on a Fedora 10 (i686) laptop. I tried both > the Fedora 9 and the Fedora 11 image. With e

[sage-devel] Re: target="_blank" when opening worksheet

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Bill Page wrote: > > In case anyone is interested, here is a quick patch to get rid of that > annoying behavior of the notebook that creates a new Active Worksheets > tab every time I close a worksheet. > > Warning: William said that this behaviour is intended to

[sage-devel] target="_blank" when opening worksheet

2009-10-21 Thread Bill Page
In case anyone is interested, here is a quick patch to get rid of that annoying behavior of the notebook that creates a new Active Worksheets tab every time I close a worksheet. Warning: William said that this behaviour is intended to avoid "massive corruption" but it is not clear to me how openi

[sage-devel] Jmol in 4.1.2

2009-10-21 Thread kcrisman
Dear sage-devel, I'm having trouble with jmol from the command line in 4.1.2 and 4.2.alpha0. E.g., sage: var('A,B,C') (A, B, C) sage: implicit_plot3d(sin(A)*cos(B)+sin(B)*cos(C)+sin(C)*cos(A), (A,-2*pi,2*pi),(B,-2*pi,2*pi),(C,-2*pi,2*pi)) does nothing. Adding .show() also fails, and quicker. O

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread Nils Bruin
Just a datapoint that might provide useful feedback for those who are trying to make binary installs a smooth experience: I tried to install 4.1.2 on a Fedora 10 (i686) laptop. I tried both the Fedora 9 and the Fedora 11 image. With either I got errors: ImportError: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: vers

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-21 Thread mhampton
I have to agree on that. A "double point" upgrade should mainly be bug fixes, I think. It would have made more sense to make this 4.2. -Marshall On Oct 20, 11:25 am, Nick Alexander wrote: > I am not passionate about this issue, but: why was such a large made > from 4.1.1 -> 4.1.2? Not even a

[sage-devel] Integration / migration of LiE in Sage

2009-10-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
> - Forwarded message from Marc van Leeuwen > - > Quoting Daniel Bump : > > William Stein has stated that LiE would not be made a > > standard package because it is no longer supported. See: > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/613cc5aa78c89f3d?hl=en > > Just for the rec

[marc.van-leeu...@math.univ-poitiers.fr: Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: [Cython] LiE in Cython]

2009-10-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Please find below a first answer from Marc van Leeuwen who is travelling abroad and can't yet post to the mailing lists. - Forwarded message from Marc van Leeuwen - Quoting Daniel Bump : > William Stein has stated that LiE would not be made a > standard package because it is no longe

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: [Cython] LiE in Cython

2009-10-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Dan, Marc, David, Steve, Mike, ... On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:53:01AM -0700, Daniel Bump wrote: > > By the way: what's the status of this spkg? Is there some > > documentation somewhere of what can be done with it from Sage? (I just > > tried lie-2.2.2.p3 but it does not seem compile

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Pablo Angulo wrote: > > Oh, I see in your patch you've taken care of the title. > If you want to very easily try this new code (and everything else we've done improving the new notebook in the last few days), just do this: sage -i http://wstein.org/home/wstein

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-21 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 20, 10:30 pm, "Georg S. Weber" wrote: > @Harald, Minh, William: > Could you upload Marshall's binary to the usual download place? yes, i'll do it. Next time please email me directly ... so that i don't miss it ;) H --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this gro

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-21 Thread Pablo Angulo
Oh, I see in your patch you've taken care of the title. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-21 Thread Pablo Angulo
The page title is also a bit different: The old sage 4.1 format started with: -- page title system:sage content... -- while the new one takes the title from somewhere else and starts directly with content. Then when a sage 4.1.2 worksheet.html is renamed into worksheet.txt and opened i

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:10 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Pablo Angulo wrote: >> >> I've made the following experiment: >> * uncompress a sws file from sage 4.1.2 >> * rename worksheet.html into worksheet.txt >> * compress it again >> * open with sage 4.1 >> >> It

[sage-devel] Category review: what's the category of a category?

2009-10-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi! In Sage 4.1, the category of a category was changed from Objects() to Sets(). I.e. we used to have: sage: Groups().category() Category of objects And now we have: sage: Groups().category() Category of sets Was there any rationale for this? The forme

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-21 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Pablo Angulo wrote: > > I've made the following experiment: > * uncompress a sws file from sage 4.1.2 > * rename worksheet.html into worksheet.txt > * compress it again > * open with sage 4.1 > > It basically worked. Of course the new pickle file is not used, but

[sage-devel] Re: help with notebook i18n

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 at 04:46PM +0900, Dan Drake wrote: > I was inspired by the Korean translation of the notebook to try and > get internationalization (i18n) support into the notebook. > > I got a good start on figuring out what to do, but I'm a bit stuck and > I need some help. I have some stuff

[sage-devel] Re: backwards compatibility of sage 4.1.2 format

2009-10-21 Thread Pablo Angulo
I've made the following experiment: * uncompress a sws file from sage 4.1.2 * rename worksheet.html into worksheet.txt * compress it again * open with sage 4.1 It basically worked. Of course the new pickle file is not used, but the core of the page remains. The output may be lost but we can "eval