Finding the Wiki (was: Re: [OS X TeX] Tex to rtf converter)

[Herbert Schulz]

On Aug 6, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> 
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Alan T Litchfield wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Unlike a mailing list that has as many contributors as posters, a website (and a wiki) has a limited number of contributors. Both exist and stay up to date for as long as those contributors are willing and able to do so. A mailing list is likely to have a longer life span simply because the pool of contributors is larger and those cease to contribute are more likely to be replaced.
>>>> 
>>>> The wiki is an excellent resource, as are the many other websites. It is true that a lot that is still out there is no longer current so please, keep up the good work. It all adds to what makes TeX a such a great experience. I have delighted in reading (and keeping) Adam's and others' posts in past. Of course we all lose patience and need a change and we are are entitled to choose our destiny.
>>> 
>>> (1) Another difference: I learned mathematics in schools (one-way) but stone work by watching and talking with stone-masons (two-way). I learned LaTeX from Companion 2ed and from LateX-masons (all but one on this list.).
>>> 
>>> (2) I noticed two absences in the wiki: (Note the absence of any joke here.)
>>> 
>>> 	(a)	sage on the mathematics helpers page.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what sage is.
> 
> 
> Google sage and the first item that comes up (but then that may be because it remembers my looking it up) is
> 
> 	Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software
> 
> 	A free mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface
> 
> Did you do that on purpose? (Joke)
> 
> I am just beginning to play with it, so to speak, and I think that there is a way to insert it in LaTeX. If you want, I will try to get a pointer to it as well, if you think it worth, some of my observations installing it and starting to use it.
> 

Howdy,

Although I don't have need of Sage there is a sage.engine for TeXshop along with some information on its interface with LaTeX in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Sage/.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)