[sage-support] Re: can one modify how xdvi executes when "show" is invoked?

2008-01-17 Thread mabshoff
Hi, Rick Pember wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running sage remotely (see previous post to see why) and "show" > makes a somewhat blurry > image. I found that using xdvi on a .dvi file gave me the same problem > -- so the problem is with > my version of xdvi, not sage -- but that if I modifed my execution

[sage-support] can one modify how xdvi executes when "show" is invoked?

2008-01-17 Thread Rick Pember
Hi, I'm running sage remotely (see previous post to see why) and "show" makes a somewhat blurry image. I found that using xdvi on a .dvi file gave me the same problem -- so the problem is with my version of xdvi, not sage -- but that if I modifed my execution of xdvi (e.g., "xdvi -density 15 -n

[sage-support] Re: show doesn't work under Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-17 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 18, 6:03 am, Rick Pember <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hi Rick, > I am a Sage "newbie" but I'm convinced this is not a newbie issue: > > Just today, I both built version 2.9.3 and downloaded binary versions > 2.9.1 and 2.9.2 to > on an Intel Core Duo box running Ubuntu 7.10. > > The

[sage-support] Re: show doesn't work under Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-17 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, It looks like this was fixed in 2.10 which will be out in a few hours. The ticket can be found here: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/975 The Sage Trac server is where we keep track of issues and development related things. --Mike On Jan 17, 2008 9:03 PM, Rick Pember <[EMAIL PROTEC

[sage-support] show doesn't work under Ubuntu 7.10

2008-01-17 Thread Rick Pember
Hi, I am a Sage "newbie" but I'm convinced this is not a newbie issue: Just today, I both built version 2.9.3 and downloaded binary versions 2.9.1 and 2.9.2 to on an Intel Core Duo box running Ubuntu 7.10. The symptom is that a command like show(g) simply returns with no action occurring. sa

[sage-support] Re: hang problem and type question

2008-01-17 Thread Mike Hansen
Hi Kate, I actually just put a patch up for #1289 last night which should make it into 2.10. Here is the behavior with the patch: sage: madness(10.0, exp) 'Life is sane.' sage: madness(10, exp) 'Life is sane.' sage: madness(10.0, log) 'Life is sane.' sage: madness(10, log) 'Life is sane

[sage-support] Re: Elementary symmetric function expansion (bug?)

2008-01-17 Thread William Stein
On Jan 17, 2008 10:44 AM, BFJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excellent, Thanks. As for my other question, the one about where to > report things, whether to file bug reports, etc.., what is best? As > I'm working on a Sage project related to my own research I'm finding > occasional problems. Shoul

[sage-support] Re: Elementary symmetric function expansion (bug?)

2008-01-17 Thread BFJ
Excellent, Thanks. As for my other question, the one about where to report things, whether to file bug reports, etc.., what is best? As I'm working on a Sage project related to my own research I'm finding occasional problems. Should I post them here or try to do something more official like using

[sage-support] Re: Problems with standalone python/sage scripts

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Miller
Georg, > #!/path/to/sage_root/sage-python > > does not work, but maybe that's not important, Does #!/path/to/sage_root/local/bin/sage-python work? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this g

[sage-support] hang problem and type question

2008-01-17 Thread Kate
The following function demonstrates a hang problem in 2.9.3 (and 2.10.alpha4) and a question about return types. Kate -- def madness(n, func): r""" Test floor(func(n)) for strange behavio

[sage-support] Re: python question

2008-01-17 Thread Fabio Tonti
Nice thread about where to start with Python :) Anyway, I recently to a look at the sage doc page, and I realized that something had changed (I normally have the docs saved offline). The book "Python Scripting for Computational Science" by Hans Petter Langtangen