Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-20 Thread Ivan Andrus
I've been meaning to make a service for OS X which does this sort of thing. Of course it's OS X only, but it would be system wide instead of just in a browser. -Ivan On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:25 PM, RegB wrote: > Yes, in a browser, most likely Firefox. > "Unprepared document" could be anything any

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-20 Thread RegB
Yes, in a browser, most likely Firefox. "Unprepared document" could be anything anywhere, including a displayed .pdf file (within a browser tab). The file that it is in shouldn't matter, it is just highlighted text and I think once it is highlighted it is in the (OS's) clipboard. I am not sure if i

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/19/10 7:09 AM, RegB wrote: That appears to be very similar to what (I believe) I am thinking of. The difference is that I am wish-dreaming a plug-in for Firefox, which more of us use more generally more of the time than TeXMacs. I am imagining the situation where we come across an expressio

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-19 Thread RegB
That appears to be very similar to what (I believe) I am thinking of. The difference is that I am wish-dreaming a plug-in for Firefox, which more of us use more generally more of the time than TeXMacs. I am imagining the situation where we come across an expression and would like to see a plot of i

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-18 Thread Rob Beezer
On Dec 18, 7:04 am, RegB <2regburg...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I keep getting distracted with the code though (-: Me too. ;-) > Here is a thought - probably not new to you; > How practical would it be to adapt the tools you have assembled to > enable a user to do the following. > 1) Drag mouse

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-18 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/18/10 9:50 AM, Jason Grout wrote: It seems like something like this should be possible in TeXMacs, which includes a Sage plugin (except I think Sage has to be installed locally). See http://www.texmacs.org/ Some more details: http://wiki.sagemath.org/TeXmacs (apparently you have to ins

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-18 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/18/10 9:04 AM, RegB wrote: Thank you SO MUCH for this. I am a code hack from way back, with very poor math. In fact I got into SAGE primarily to learn the math that has been so lacking for far too long. I keep getting distracted with the code though (-: Here is a thought - probably not new

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-18 Thread RegB
Thank you SO MUCH for this. I am a code hack from way back, with very poor math. In fact I got into SAGE primarily to learn the math that has been so lacking for far too long. I keep getting distracted with the code though (-: Here is a thought - probably not new to you; How practical would it be

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-15 Thread Eviatar
That's very interesting! I think it has potential to increase usage of Sage in a classroom setting. On Dec 14, 2:07 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > After months of threats, I finally have a toolchain of conversion > software working acceptably and have begun adding actual Sage content > to open source te