> > On 5/11/07, dgalant <l> wrote: > >> PS Has anyone thought about the possibility of making the sage > >> reference manual (1100+ pages) available as a > >> published document? > > > > It's actually about 2000 page now. I don't think anybody has > > considered publishing it with a publisher. What are your > > thoughts on the matter? > >
On 5/11/07, dgalant <> wrote: > I certainly cannot print such a document, even with two pages > printed /actual page, and I am of such an age that > books are better for reference than a pdf document. Maybe you could print relevant sections or page ranges, instead of printing the whole thing? > A good index is > worth a great many searches. Have you found the index of the reference manual useful? Also, there is a search_doc command in SAGE, which might be useful for you, as it does a full text search of all the HTML docs. It's a little slow still, e.g., a search could take a second, but faster than not being able to find something at all. > Even worse, an HTML document of such a > size is usually broken into many, many pieces and is even less > searchable. I'd certainly buy one, but what do I know about your > community of users? Nobody has made such a request until you, so I guess it isn't a big requirement yet. I'm sure that could change. William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
