[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:57 AM, nsauer wrote: Thanks for replying; I start sage by double clicking on the name sage in the finder. It is in /Applications/sage/ This file sage, in /Applications/sage/ is a Unix Executible File. Even so, if in the terminal I change the directory to

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread nsauer
Thanks again for your help. The textbook I am teaching linear algebra from prints matrices with brackets as delimeters. [ ]. Hence when I set a test and write solutions with LateX I wish to use the same notation for matrices as used in the text. But just using the standard way to include

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread Jason Grout
nsauer wrote: Thanks again for your help. The textbook I am teaching linear algebra from prints matrices with brackets as delimeters. [ ]. Hence when I set a test and write solutions with LateX I wish to use the same notation for matrices as used in the text. But just using the standard

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: nsauer wrote: Thanks again for your help. The textbook I am teaching linear algebra from prints matrices with brackets as delimeters. [  ]. Hence when I set a test and write solutions with LateX I wish to use

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread nsauer
Thanks for your reply; As I am completely new to sage I do not know how to perform the indicated change. I looked at the file sage/devel/sage/sage/matrix0.pyx but could not figure out how and where to add the function sage.matrix.matrix0.set_latex_delimiters('[',']') Norbert On Mar 10, 1:34 

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 10, 1:00 pm, nsauer nsa...@math.ucalgary.ca wrote: Thanks for your reply; As I am completely new to sage I do not know how to perform the indicated change. I looked at the file sage/devel/sage/sage/matrix0.pyx but could not figure out how and where to add the function

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 10, 12:34 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jason Grout [snip] I agree that this should be an option.  Also, the delimiters for vectors should be an option. +1. How about adding a function to matrix0.pyx that sets a global variable in

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 10, 12:34 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jason Grout [snip] I agree that this should be an option.  Also, the delimiters for vectors should be an option.

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread nsauer
Thanks for the help. I made the changes but failed to recompile. Here is what I did: (test is my home name) where is this sage binary? Laptop-3:~ test$ sage -b -bash: sage: command not found Laptop-3:/ test$ sage -b -bash: sage: command not found Laptop-3:sage test$ sage -b -bash: sage:

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-10 Thread Robert Bradshaw
How are you starting up Sage? If you're starting up sage via /path/into/folder/sage then you'll have to do /path/into/folder/sage -b On Mar 10, 2009, at 8:52 PM, nsauer wrote: Thanks for the help. I made the changes but failed to recompile. Here is what I did: (test is my home name)

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-09 Thread kcrisman
The terminal opened as follows: Last login: Sun Mar  8 16:23:08 on console /Applications/sage/sage ; exit; You have mail. Laptop-3:~ test$ /Applications/sage/sage ; exit; -- | Sage Version 3.2.3, Release Date: 2009-01-05  

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-09 Thread nsauer
Thanks for your help, everything works great now. How do I write matrices inside [ ] instead of ( ) ? On Mar 9, 7:38 am, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: The terminal opened as follows: Last login: Sun Mar  8 16:23:08 on console /Applications/sage/sage ; exit; You have mail.

[sage-support] Re: instructions for installing sage do not work

2009-03-09 Thread kcrisman
On Mar 9, 1:03 pm, nsauer nsa...@math.ucalgary.ca wrote: Thanks for your help, everything works great now. Great! How do I write matrices inside [ ] instead of ( )  ? I'm not sure - can you be more specific about what command you are trying, what output you are getting, and what output you