[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-24 Thread William Stein
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Serge A. Salamanka wrote: > > Thanks everyone for providing the links. > > Could it be made possible to edit this way formulas in the cells of Sage > notebook ? Yes, it can be made possible. It will happen when somebody decides to actually put in a lot of effort

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-23 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
Thanks everyone for providing the links. Could it be made possible to edit this way formulas in the cells of Sage notebook ? Bill Page пишет: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> Bill Page wrote: >>> Where can I find and/or test "jsmath equation editor"? >> I guess it's a

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-23 Thread bmwoodr...@gmail.com
> one of my linear algebra students wants to input a matrix as a table. > They click on a button, enter the entries, click submit, and then blam, > the matrix is sitting right there in the cell waiting for them to do > something with it. True that the matrix is sitting right there in front of the

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Bill Page
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Bill Page wrote: >> Where can I find and/or test "jsmath equation editor"? > > I guess it's a little confusing to call it that, since mathdox > apparently uses jsmath too. Yes. > What we are referring to is an equation editor that Davide (

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Nick Alexander
> I don't think interacts are nearly that simple for a user to just > enter > a matrix. For one, the user would first have to define the function. > Then how would the user use the matrix they put in? I am imagining a syntax such as M = interact_matrix(nrows, ncols), where the sage library

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Jason Grout
Nick Alexander wrote: >> One easy thing to do would be to have a bunch of "helpers" for easy >> things, like matrices. > > Isn't this what interact is good for? The use case: one of my linear algebra students wants to input a matrix as a table. They click on a button, enter the entries, click

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Jason Grout
Bill Page wrote: > Where can I find and/or test "jsmath equation editor"? I guess it's a little confusing to call it that, since mathdox apparently uses jsmath too. What we are referring to is an equation editor that Davide (the author of jsmath) wrote: http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/talks/2

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Nick Alexander
> One easy thing to do would be to have a bunch of "helpers" for easy > things, like matrices. Isn't this what interact is good for? Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send e

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Jason Grout
Serge A. Salamanka wrote: > It will be great to enable Sage with 2D input. > > Any ideas how to do this ? > One easy thing to do would be to have a bunch of "helpers" for easy things, like matrices. A student clicks on a button, and a javascript window pops up that lets them specify the size

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Ben Goodrich
On May 22, 1:52 pm, "Serge A. Salamanka" wrote: > It will be great to enable Sage with 2D input. > > Any ideas how to do this ? > > #Serge R has 2D input for numerics or characters that conceivably could be wrapped and parsed by Sage. Still ugly though. Ben --~--~-~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Bill Page
Where can I find and/or test "jsmath equation editor"? How difficult might it be to convert the output of this editor to input to Sage? 2009/5/22 William Stein : > > 2009/5/22 Bill Page : >> >> It might be a stretch to fit this into the Sage NoteBook but the >> MathDox formula editor >> >>  http

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > 2009/5/22 Bill Page : >> It might be a stretch to fit this into the Sage NoteBook but the >> MathDox formula editor >> >> šhttp://www.mathdox.org/formulaeditor/ >> >> might be a good starting point. > > To me that looks less capable and more ugly than the jsmath equation ed

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread mabshoff
On May 22, 11:24 am, William Stein wrote: > 2009/5/22 Bill Page : > > > > > It might be a stretch to fit this into the Sage NoteBook but the > > MathDox formula editor > > >  http://www.mathdox.org/formulaeditor/ > > > might be a good starting point. > > To me that looks less capable and more u

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread William Stein
2009/5/22 Bill Page : > > It might be a stretch to fit this into the Sage NoteBook but the > MathDox formula editor > >  http://www.mathdox.org/formulaeditor/ > > might be a good starting point. To me that looks less capable and more ugly than the jsmath equation editor. William >The intermedia

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Bill Page
It might be a stretch to fit this into the Sage NoteBook but the MathDox formula editor http://www.mathdox.org/formulaeditor/ might be a good starting point. The intermediate format produced by the formula editor is actually OpenMath and in principle OpenMath was designed for just this sort of

[sage-devel] Re: 2d math input

2009-05-22 Thread Serge A. Salamanka
It will be great to enable Sage with 2D input. Any ideas how to do this ? #Serge jason-s...@creativetrax.com пишет: > Ben Woodruff wrote: >> Do you know if 2D math input is in the process of being developed, >> such as being able to type matrices in matrix format instead of having >> to creat