[sage-edu] Re: converting notes to a Sage notebook

2010-01-06 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Dana, 1. Backslashes At the Sage command line the help shows the two backslashes, but in the notebook the help gets Sphinx-icated (which is very nice!) but the double slash gets clobbered. LaTeX, escape codes, Python string, Python raw strings, Sphinx are all interacting improperly here. I'm

Re: [sage-edu] Sage-Enhanced Textbook Demo

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Clemans
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Dana Ernst wrote: > On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: > >> I'm giving a short (15 min) talk at the annual US mathematics meetings >> in San Francisco next week, about converting textbooks into Sage >> worksheets.  It's more a preview of what is possible

Re: [sage-edu] Sage-Enhanced Textbook Demo

2010-01-06 Thread Dana Ernst
On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: > I'm giving a short (15 min) talk at the annual US mathematics meetings > in San Francisco next week, about converting textbooks into Sage > worksheets. It's more a preview of what is possible, rather than > final report. > > Here's links to the sl

Re: [sage-edu] Re: converting notes to a Sage notebook

2010-01-06 Thread Dana Ernst
On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: >> When I typed latex.add_to_preamble() I received a message saying that I >> needed to provide two parameters. When I typed the command without the (), >> I got: >> >> \newcommand{\Bold}[1]{\mathbf{#1}}\hbox{ < bound method >> Latex.add_to_pre

[sage-edu] Re: Obtaining 3D plot data files (Jmol files)

2010-01-06 Thread Jonathan
Paul, This is correct and is they way I would like things to work. The issue is that how SAGE knows that it should use Jmol will need to be changed. SAGE will have to generate the new .jmol file format. At present I am working on the web GUI part of this. I then intend to help the SAGE peo