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 with the \sage{...} command, which seems
to be built only for inline and in math mode. You can't, for example,
create an object whose LaTeX representation is several paragraphs long,
with display math and so on in it, and then try to do \sage{thatObject}.
You get a ton of errors of various kinds, including ones about paragraph
breaks in places they shouldn't be.
Doing it this way (creating Python objects to store the problems) was
important to me, because I hoped to create a solution that didn't just
generate random problems each time the document was compiled, but also (a)
automatically generate several versions of the exam/worksheet in the same
LaTeX document (concatenated), and (b) permute the problems differently in
each version. Is this hopeless or does someone here know a relevant
SageTeX trick that I don't?
Thanks!
Nathan
On Tuesday, August 4, 2009 2:10:46 PM UTC-4, Harald Schilly wrote:
>
> On Aug 4, 4:58 pm, "M.Olson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a very SIMPLE example of generating random dyadic
> > operations ... let's use addition. ...
>
> Hi, I would tackle this entirely different. I would code the randomness
> +the solutions in python, part of sagetex, and just insert markers
> into the latex code where the example should go (an example is
> basically a map of "ID"s <-> problem-data-structure). coding the
> random generation inside the latex document is bad, because you cannot
> reuse the code and as you say you don't get the solutions.
> In detail, you could parameterize each generated latex document with a
> number (serving as a random seed). then, there is an option to print
> the question, question+answer or just the answer. in the latex code is
> something like "\insertProblem{ID_STRING}" and that calls a python
> function that generates the latex code and does everything else. Of
> course, I never thought this through but i think it might work very
> well.
>
> H
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