[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-29 Thread pang
No one in this thread has mentioned texmacs. You can open a sage session within texmacs. It looks like a latex- generated pdf, but you can change it live, the text, tha formulas and the sage commands. I haven't seen the slideshow mode of the notebook, but texmacs+sage is very cool. If you use ub

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-27 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> Marshall Hampton wrote: >> >>> I guess I just like to do it the other way around, with a screencast >>> primarily and a notebook for interactive questions. Often, after an >>> intro sage talk someone will ask, "Can S

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-27 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Marshall Hampton wrote: > >> I guess I just like to do it the other way around, with a screencast >> primarily and a notebook for interactive questions.  Often, after an >> intro sage talk someone will ask, "Can Sage do X" and I can show them

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-27 Thread Jason Grout
Marshall Hampton wrote: > I guess I just like to do it the other way around, with a screencast > primarily and a notebook for interactive questions. Often, after an > intro sage talk someone will ask, "Can Sage do X" and I can show them > on the notebook. But I like the screencasts for more tha

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-27 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/26/09 05:59, William Stein wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screencasting_software#Mac_OS_X > > It's depressing -- there appear to be *no* FOSS screencasting programs > for OS X at all. This one works on OS X: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/pyvnc2swf.html prabhu -

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-26 Thread Marshall Hampton
> > I gave a plenary talk at a big MAA meeting a few months ago. It was > entirely a live demo using the Sage notebook. It went perfectly. > Stan Wagon gave another talk in using the Mathematica notebook, and it > surprisingly had numerous bugs/problems as a result of bugs in > Mathematica's no

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-25 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi Marshall, > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Marshall Hampton wrote: >> >> Because of bad experiences, I have switched to doing screencast talks >> - i.e. I do the "interactive" stuff in advance.  I'm not sure what is >> available on li

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-25 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Marshall, On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > Because of bad experiences, I have switched to doing screencast talks > - i.e. I do the "interactive" stuff in advance. I'm not sure what is > available on linux for this, but on the mac I use iShowU, which is > commercia

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-21 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > I gave a plenary talk at a big MAA meeting a few months ago.  It was > > entirely a live demo using the Sage notebook.  It went perfectly. > > Stan Wagon gave another talk in using the Mathematica notebook, and it > > surprisingly had nume

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-21 Thread kcrisman
> I gave a plenary talk at a big MAA meeting a few months ago.  It was > entirely a live demo using the Sage notebook.  It went perfectly. > Stan Wagon gave another talk in using the Mathematica notebook, and it > surprisingly had numerous bugs/problems as a result of bugs in Yes, the same thing

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-21 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > Because of bad experiences, I have switched to doing screencast talks > - i.e. I do the "interactive" stuff in advance.  I'm not sure what is > available on linux for this, but on the mac I use iShowU, which is > commercial but only abou

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-21 Thread Marshall Hampton
Because of bad experiences, I have switched to doing screencast talks - i.e. I do the "interactive" stuff in advance. I'm not sure what is available on linux for this, but on the mac I use iShowU, which is commercial but only about $25 and cheerfully written and maintained by one guy. Of course

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-21 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:44:48 -0700 William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Robert Miller > wrote: > > > >> Is the slideshow mode for the notebook in usable form with the > >> patches in trac #6342? > > > > I found a few (minor) bugs when I was working with it. I spent the > >

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-20 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Robert Miller wrote: > >> Is the slideshow mode for the notebook in usable form with the patches >> in trac #6342? > > I found a few (minor) bugs when I was working with it. I spent the > time it takes to make a set of slides. After that I knew it well > enough to

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-20 Thread Marshall Hampton
I was curious, so I tried to apply the patch to 4.1 but it was rejected. It wasn't clear to me why, maybe it needs to be rebased. -Marshall On Jul 20, 3:27 pm, Robert Miller wrote: > > Is the slideshow mode for the notebook in usable form with the patches > > in trac #6342? > > I found a few (

[sage-devel] Re: slideshow mode for the notebook

2009-07-20 Thread Robert Miller
> Is the slideshow mode for the notebook in usable form with the patches > in trac #6342? I found a few (minor) bugs when I was working with it. I spent the time it takes to make a set of slides. After that I knew it well enough to use it during a talk. In other words, there are issues, but you d