[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-27 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:12 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> Finally this is on the amazon site: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/Sage-tutorial-version-3-4-Group/dp/1442141948/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240843883&sr=8-2 >> >> Hope this lin

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-27 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > Finally this is on the amazon site: > > http://www.amazon.com/Sage-tutorial-version-3-4-Group/dp/1442141948/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240843883&sr=8-2 > > Hope this link comes out okay via email. > It did. Can you "sign up" and make

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-27 Thread David Joyner
Finally this is on the amazon site: http://www.amazon.com/Sage-tutorial-version-3-4-Group/dp/1442141948/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240843883&sr=8-2 Hope this link comes out okay via email. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:37 AM, David Joyner wrote: > Hi: > > The Sage tutorial on amazon is a bit

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-16 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:05 AM, William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > ... > >> Maybe I'm being dumb, but it seems like you haven't provided a link >> anywhere in this email or in the emails quoted below to the actual >> book and

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-16 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:05 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Joyner wrote: >> ... >> > > Maybe I'm being dumb, but it seems like you haven't provided a link > anywhere in this email or in the emails quoted below to the actual > book and cover that you're tal

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-15 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > Finally!! > The process is over and the new tutorial should be on sale at amazon within > 15 days. BTW, I think Sage earns a little more of a royalty if the book is > ordered directly from createspace.com, but not much. > > I had to create

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-15 Thread David Joyner
Finally!! The process is over and the new tutorial should be on sale at amazon within 15 days. BTW, I think Sage earns a little more of a royalty if the book is ordered directly from createspace.com, but not much. I had to create a cover using the "easy" option, so it is a different looking book.

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-08 Thread David Joyner
Thank you again, I didn't notice that! I just finished uploading new files. We will see what the program says this time in a day or 2 On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Apr 7, 5:30 pm, David Joyner wrote: > > [snip] > >> Okay, thanks. I just tried this and it di

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 7, 5:30 pm, David Joyner wrote: [snip] > Okay, thanks. I just tried this and it didn't seem to work for me. > However, the length is now 104 instead of 96. The horizonal line > across the bottom above the page number seems to be the same distance > from the bottom edge of the paper. The

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-07 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Apr 7, 12:11 pm, David Joyner wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM, John H Palmieri >> wrote: >> >> >> >> > This may be overkill, but the manual documentclass sets some options >> > and then passes everything else to report.cls

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-07 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 7, 12:11 pm, David Joyner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM, John H Palmieri > wrote: > > > > > This may be overkill, but the manual documentclass sets some options > > and then passes everything else to report.cls.  So you can make a copy > > of report.cls, say in > > Do you mean

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-07 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > ... > > This may be overkill, but the manual documentclass sets some options > and then passes everything else to report.cls.  So you can make a copy > of report.cls, say in Do you mean manual.cls? > > SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/doc/output

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-05 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 5, 5:29 pm, David Joyner wrote: > box on page 59. One error message was that the "interior" pdf was > formatted for 8.5x11 and it must be 8x10. With the old latex file, I could > adjust the page margins using > > \setlength{\paperwidth}{10in} > \setlength{\paperheight}{8in} > or > \setlen

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:29 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > 4. I can look at this more Tuesday. Also, while writing this, Minh posted to > this thread, so I will wait until he has done whatever he wants to do fisrt. I just skimmed through the Sage tutorial to get some ideas on section

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-05 Thread David Joyner
This is just a summary of my progress (or lack thereof) on updating the sage tutorial on amazon. I also said I'd make a wiki page but since it is so simple, I thought I'd just sketch the instructions here. First, you need to create a "8x10" pdf with no overfull boxes and a cover. I placed the Sag

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:37 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > > The Sage tutorial on amazon is a bit out of date. > Amazon requires the online publisher createspace, > which uses an extremely finiky automated web-based > program to process the manuscript. Any overfull > box, if memory

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread CalcPage
Wow, the latest tutorial (3.4) at least has more info on how to use dSage! Thanx, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College In a message dated 4/2/200

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread David Joyner
The only one I've found so far is on page 59. I'm guessing verbatim environments surpress the overfull box errors during compilation. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:34 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Apr 2, 10:09 am, William Stein wrote: ... >> >> > "sage -docbuild tutorial pdf" >> >> Nice.  Her

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 2, 10:09 am, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:45 AM, John H Palmieri > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Apr 2, 8:39 am, William Stein wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:37 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > >> > Hi: > > >> > The Sage tutorial on amazon is a bit out of date. > >> >

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:45 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 8:39 am, William Stein wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:37 AM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> > Hi: >> >> > The Sage tutorial on amazon is a bit out of date. >> > Amazon requires the online publisher createspace, >> > which u

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread David Joyner
Thanks John and William. The command sage -docbuild tutorial pdf generated all I think I need. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 8:39 am, William Stein wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:37 AM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> > Hi: >> >> > The Sage tutorial

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 2, 8:39 am, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:37 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > > Hi: > > > The Sage tutorial on amazon is a bit out of date. > > Amazon requires the online publisher createspace, > > which uses an extremely finiky automated web-based > > program to process th

[sage-support] Re: sage tutorial on amazon

2009-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:37 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > > The Sage tutorial on amazon is a bit out of date. > Amazon requires the online publisher createspace, > which uses an extremely finiky automated web-based > program to process the manuscript. Any overfull > box, if memory serves, wil