On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 at 07:23AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > I'd strongly encourage you to see if you can try to make a variant that has > some Sage exercises using a Sage cell server, if the workflow would support > this - I don't know if it's possible to embed a cell in a pdf, but > certainly there could be a link to a Sage cell with the same code. In an > HTML5-style epub, apparently, this would be very easy. Jason, any comments > on that?
Here are some random ideas on that subject: * Rob Beezer has a prototype of a version of his textbook that puts QR codes into the PDF, so you can scan them (or click them) to open a cell with the relevant contents put in. It's pretty nice. * PDF supports Javascript, so perhaps something can be done right in the PDF. I don't know how far that can go, though -- and reader support may be difficult or impossible. * Someone (not me, at least not anytime soon) should investigate the epub thing more. I've read that they are basically just HTML packaged up nicely, and hence seem like a fantastic platform for Sage-ified math books. We need some examples and more information, though. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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