#7617: include sagetex as a standard spkg
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Reporter: was | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Author:
Upstream: N/A | Reviewer:
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Changes (by was):
* status: needs_review => needs_work
Comment:
Hi,
I'm curious how users will even *know* to do this:
{{{
:To use SageTeX, both Sage and LaTeX need to know about it. If you have
installed this spkg, then Sage knows about SageTeX; now you need to make
LaTeX aware of it. The easiest thing to do is to ...
}}}
the only reason I know to do the things listed there so I can use SageTex
is because I happen to have looked in the spkg after installing it and was
looking at SPKG.txt. When this package is standard in Sage, how will
users know how to use and set it up? Binaries won't even include that
SPKG.txt file, since SAGE binaries don't include the contents of any spkg
files.
One solution, which I think would be extremely appropriate, is for you to
add a new section to the Sage tutorial explaining how to use and get going
with SageTex. It's such a killer feature, that I think this is reasonable
and worth it. Let's make SageTex one of the centerpieces of Sage!
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