On Friday, 24 May 2013 13:36:08 UTC+8, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Friday, May 24, 2013 1:26:52 AM UTC-4, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, 24 May 2013 07:47:40 UTC+8, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> I just installed Sage 5.9 on a computer running Windows (VirtualBox). >>> But could not make it run with Texmaker. >>> >>> I'm trying to run the "Examples of embedding Sage in LaTeX...", so I >>> presume that the LaTeX code is correct. The problem must be in the >>> communication between Texmaker and Sage operating on VirtualBox. >>> >>> So I'd like to try 2 things first: >>> >>> 1-) Make sure that Texmaker is calling Sage on the shell. Is it >>> different than calling a standart.exe? >>> >> this is very different, if possible at all. Sage is running inside >> VirtualBox; from point of view of WIndows, it does not exist as a separate >> program, it is some subprocess of VirtualBox (or even a subsubprocess, as >> from the point of view of VirtualBox it is a subprocess running on Linux, >> which is run inside VirtualBox.) >> > > Isn't possible to integrate on my environment then? > It is possible, but a nontrivial amount of hacking, it seems.
> > >> >> >>> 2-) The code is compiling using an outdated sagetex.sty. Alas, I could >>> not download the one from sage to my local files. Is it possible to do this >>> operating from VirtualBox? >>> >>> >>> it is certainly possible to exchange files between the guest OS running >> in VirtualBox and Windows. It's not really Sage-specific. >> By the way, you can also pick up an up to date copy of sagetex.sty on >> the net. >> > > Thank you. I got around this by sharing a local file with virtualbox and > then saving the file on such folder. But it seems that if I don't get > around issue #1, it'll not be of much use though. > I think is should be possible to have VirtualBox processes read/write to the local Windows disk. Then you can invoke Sage on the VirtualBox to process the *.sage files produced by LaTeX, and write the results to the correct place for your LaTeX to pick it for subsequent processing. Not as integrated as you wished, but still workable. > > -- 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.
