Re: [sage-edu] Another Sage review - from CUNY Math blog

2013-03-23 Thread Dan Drake
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 at 09:09PM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: > On 3/22/13 7:58 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >Note the pgf use, and "allowing any languages", whatever that means. > > Note that the newest version of matplotlib has a pgf output option, > so we could in theory (once we upgrade) have sagetex outp

Re: [sage-edu] Another Sage review - from CUNY Math blog

2013-03-22 Thread Jason Grout
On 3/22/13 7:58 PM, kcrisman wrote: Note the pgf use, and "allowing any languages", whatever that means. Note that the newest version of matplotlib has a pgf output option, so we could in theory (once we upgrade) have sagetex output pgf if we wanted... Jason -- You received this message bec

Re: [sage-edu] Another Sage review - from CUNY Math blog

2013-03-22 Thread kcrisman
On Friday, March 22, 2013 2:47:24 PM UTC-4, Dan Drake wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 at 09:57AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > > Does anyone with experience with Sweave/knitr (in R) have any comments > > about whether SageTeX is easier or harder to use than that? > > I used Sweave to write an exam (

Re: [sage-edu] Another Sage review - from CUNY Math blog

2013-03-22 Thread Dan Drake
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 at 09:57AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > Does anyone with experience with Sweave/knitr (in R) have any comments > about whether SageTeX is easier or harder to use than that? I used Sweave to write an exam (which also used SageTeX...) and looking at it again, I see that after you r

Re: [sage-edu] Another Sage review - from CUNY Math blog

2013-03-22 Thread kcrisman
On Friday, March 22, 2013 9:49:40 AM UTC-4, lfmartins wrote: > > It may be little consolation for end users, but people do not realize > what a tour de force SageTeX is. > > It also took me a while to get SageTeX to work on my Mac, but it is > worth every minute of it. > > +1 Does anyone w

Re: [sage-edu] Another Sage review - from CUNY Math blog

2013-03-22 Thread Luiz Felipe Martins
It may be little consolation for end users, but people do not realize what a tour de force SageTeX is. It also took me a while to get SageTeX to work on my Mac, but it is worth every minute of it. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:15 AM, kcrisman wrote: > I hadn't seen this before. I think it definitely

[sage-edu] Another Sage review - from CUNY Math blog

2013-03-21 Thread kcrisman
I hadn't seen this before. I think it definitely belongs in the "positive views of Sage" category. I notice that maybe we want to reorganize http://sagemath.org/library.html or find ways to allow it to be updated more frequently. At the very least, there are so many independent (i.e. non-Sag