Re: [sage-edu] Re: Creating Random Student Worksheets using LaTeX and Sage

2013-02-26 Thread Nathan Carter
Now that I have gotten all the SageTeX tools I need set up, I'm planning to start working on this project in earnest. I hit another wall, but it's a separate issue. I started a new topic for it, rather than clutter this one, but I thought I'd link to it here. You know, just to keep the saga

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Creating Random Student Worksheets using LaTeX and Sage

2013-02-25 Thread Jurgis Pralgauskis
just stumbled upon some R package for exams... http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/exams/index.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsu

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Creating Random Student Worksheets using LaTeX and Sage

2013-02-24 Thread Brad Burkman
I used to do this, make a hundred "different" but "similar" worksheets for my College Algebra students. I used C++ to generate the exercises, then have C++ write a .tex file, then compile. I can help more with the questions of "why" and "what makes a good set of exercises," although I can al

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Creating Random Student Worksheets using LaTeX and Sage

2013-02-23 Thread Nathan Carter
That's handy for outputting strings, but unfortunately because the .sout file puts everything in a \newlabel{} command, it still can't handle paragraph breaks. So all my problems would need to be one paragraph. I could use \\ to split paragraphs primitively, and display math *does* work, so i

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Creating Random Student Worksheets using LaTeX and Sage

2013-02-23 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/23/13 4:11 PM, Nathan Carter wrote: Harald's idea sounds like a great one, so I tried to implement it. I have no problem creating Python objects with arbitrary _latex_() methods, but then there's no way to insert them into the document. The only way to get Sage output into the document is