I have a MathCAD user i know, and i want to convert him to Sage. Sage's ability to do math is beyond any doubt, but that person uses Windows, and proved to be difficult to teach anything complex. Thing is, he uses MathCad to generate technical documents (which are like normal documents that any organization produces at daily basis, but have formulas in them, and later specific values are introduced and results are calculated, and are presented right there, in the document; maybe graphs too). I've read a bit about Sage and its interaction with TeX, but it is unclear to me how the process will work in general (the docs focus on Sage part, assuming that the reader knows how to use TeX; i don't). The goal is to write the document (in which editor? Will it have a preview? Will it be TeX-document-with-Sage-bits or Sage-sheet-with-lots-of-text?), then hit a few GUI buttons (or invoke a shortcut that runs a script; i can write scripts; either way, end-user must not use the command line) and either print the document (with a preview), or produce a printable file (.pdf, .odt - anything you can print from a Windows desktop). Should he use a Sage notebook? Or should i set up Sage on my server (i have a Debian Wheezy machine) and make him use that remotely? What kind of output Sage will produce, and how it will reach the printer (or a local file that can be viewed and/or printed)? Or maybe there's an easy-to-use TeX solution that can be integrated with Sage?
-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
