> 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?),
In the (La)TeX editor that you already use. (La)TeX isn't WYSIWYG, what you see is what you get, so no real time preview. IMHO, is (La)TeX-document-with-Sage-bits because it use the some like `write18` TeX's function in the background. > 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 Almost (La)TeX IDEs have a GUI button. You just have to properly configure it. > either print the document (with a preview), or produce a printable file > (.pdf, .odt - anything you can print from a Windows desktop). (La)TeX output can be a pdf file. > 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? Use Sage remotely can be a little slow. When you setup Sage you can use the Sage notebook localy without problem. > 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? I friend of mine is a great fan of RStudio (http://www.rstudio.com/). He say that RStudio have a nice feature to create pdf document using (La)TeX and R. Raniere -- 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.
