[sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Beezer
Thanks, Bill. It continues to be fun and there's lots more to do. But I am also looking forward to writing more content myself. ;-) Rob On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:54:37 AM UTC-7, Bill Hart wrote: > > Rob, this is truly fantastic work. I want to congratulate you on getting > this up and r

[sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Beezer
Dear Bernard, I was thinking more of the "static" HTML pages you sent that had been generated from TeX/LaTeX with your GIAC extensions (giac.tex). The mathematics on those pages might look better with MathJax and that would be an easier scenario to configure. For the calculator page you just

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Beezer
On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 3:12:38 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > IMHO we should think about moving non-technical Sage docs to mathbook. >> > write an automatic converted, why not... > > Sage-flavored ReST/Sphinx might be structured/predictable enough to be very amenable to this. --

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Beezer
On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:05:07 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Perhaps they should rather generate your XML? (beezertex filename ;-)) > No, seriously... > Yes, seriously. ;-) I hope that something like this will be in place eventually. > Please note that I actually rather like t

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Beezer
On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:45:16 AM UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote: > It would be nice if Sage cells would know about which cells they depend > on; Right now evaluating a cell in the middle is very likely to cough up an > error message about something not being defined. > Yes, Sage Cells are

[sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Jason Grout
On 8/1/15 05:45, Volker Braun wrote: It would be nice if Sage cells would know about which cells they depend on; Right now evaluating a cell in the middle is very likely to cough up an error message about something not being defined. Interesting idea. Complicating factors include: 1. Executin

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, 1 August 2015 10:45:16 UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: > > On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 4:14:33 AM UTC+2, Rob Beezer wrote: >> >> Seems only tex can understand TeX. ;-) >> > > Tex it a Turing-complete language, XML is not. Hence only TeX can > understand TeX, > Rather, "Wahr sind

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Volker Braun
On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 4:14:33 AM UTC+2, Rob Beezer wrote: > > Seems only tex can understand TeX. ;-) > Tex it a Turing-complete language, XML is not. Hence only TeX can understand TeX, but for XML there are various 100% compliant parsers and converters. IMHO your decision to use XML i

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Sage-enabled textbook for Abstract Algebra

2015-08-01 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, 1 August 2015 03:14:33 UTC+1, Rob Beezer wrote: > > On 07/31/2015 05:25 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > And if it is so easy to convert LaTeX into HTML, why hasn't anybody > done it > > successfully? tex4ht is the only one I know that comes close, and > only > > beca