[sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Offray, Thanks for the reply. I think we pretty much in agreement on most all of this. > this will be some kind of experience that they don't want to repeat. Yes, I've seen students resist, but then become proponents, especially with Beamer versus Powerpoint. ;-) Also, I agree that PlasTe

[sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Rob, Rob Beezer escribió: > Hi Offray, > > Those are very interesting experiments. Thanks for posting them. For > further comparison, I've taken your two examples and run them through > my process. Here are some observations based on that, with the > disclaimer that TeXmacs is new to me. >

[sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Offray, Those are very interesting experiments. Thanks for posting them. For further comparison, I've taken your two examples and run them through my process. Here are some observations based on that, with the disclaimer that TeXmacs is new to me. 1. I output both your examples from withi

[sage-edu] Re: LaTeX -> SWS Prototype

2009-06-24 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi all, I tried a complementary approach to Rob's one using PlasTeX[1] (tex4ht complains a lot about LaTeX files exported by TeXmacs and PlasTeX is more pythonic that tex4ht because... well is made on python :-P). The final idea is to have something that takes TeXmacs[2] documents and convert

[sage-edu] SAGE lecturer needed

2009-06-24 Thread jan . groenewald
Hi, The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is looking for a lecturer to teach an introductory course in python scripting for science, from 30 August for six weeks as part of the postgraduate diploma in the mathematical sciences for 2009/10. Pedagogical skills and good communica