[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-17 Thread Martin Albrecht
Sorry for replying to myself: Since the pain with latex2html is growing: Is there any volunteer who would like to attempt to build the Sage reference manual (and the tutorial etc.) using e.g. plastex properly? If this fails a report of ultimate failure would also be useful: the information th

[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-13 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I tried plasTex on 3-4 separate occasions. I so wish it actually worked. >> It only works on trivial examples, and falls apart on anything nontrivial >> at all, in all my experience. latex2html is vastly more robust

[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-13 Thread Dan Christensen
John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about tth? I've had pretty good luck with that, and when it > works, it produces better-looking math than latex2html. http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/ tth has the advantage that it doesn't use images. I use tth to produce the web versio

[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Albrecht
> I tried plasTex on 3-4 separate occasions. I so wish it actually worked. > It only works on trivial examples, and falls apart on anything nontrivial > at all, in all my experience. latex2html is vastly more robust than that. > I wish this weren't the case. > > William William challenged me t

[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-13 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> Also, somewhere on the web I once saw a side-by-side comparison of > latex-to-html converters, but I can't find it now. If I recall, the > output from TeX4ht looked good, but I couldn't get the program to > work. (I didn't try very hard, though.) Tex4ht (http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/

[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-12 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jun 12, 9:03 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 at 07:58PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > >> The sage documentation is just too complicated for latex2html at this > >> point.  latex2html

[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-12 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 at 07:58PM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> The sage documentation is just too complicated for latex2html at this >> point. latex2html has a screwy non-gpl compatible license. We really >> need to find some

[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-12 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 at 07:58PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > The sage documentation is just too complicated for latex2html at this > point. latex2html has a screwy non-gpl compatible license. We really > need to find some way forward, and latex2html maybe isn't it. Perhaps > something like sphinx

[sage-devel] Re: weird documentation thing

2008-06-12 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:45 PM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/ref/module-sage.rings.real-mpfr.html > "In Sage (as in MPFR), floating-point numbers of precision $ p$ are of the > form 1251#175 , where 1252#176 , 1253#177 , and 1254#178 ; plus the speci