Last weekend I have been watching, reading and playing around with Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki.
As usual he is a great designer and aims to simple, effective, understandable and useful tools!
I particularly like the plugins idea (not new of course) and how easy it seems to be to add new ones, like support for MathJax:
Get inspired you too!
Showing posts with label latex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label latex. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
LaTeX on Blogger again
My previous post about LaTeX on Blogger reported that the solution described there did not work anymore...
Now I found a new solution based on mathjax.
So let's try it straight away with inline math, like the great equation \(e^{-2\pi}\), and with displayed math like the following:
\[ \left [ - \frac{\hbar^2}{2 m} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + V \right ] \Psi
= i \hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \Psi \]
Now I found a new solution based on mathjax.
So let's try it straight away with inline math, like the great equation \(e^{-2\pi}\), and with displayed math like the following:
\[ \left [ - \frac{\hbar^2}{2 m} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + V \right ] \Psi
= i \hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \Psi \]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
LaTeX on Blogger
An inline snippet of LaTeX $e^{\pi i}+1=0\$ in blogger (from http://watchmath.com/vlog/?p=438 but it now, Oct 2010, shows crap!).
You can as well have it in display style:
\[e^{\pi i}+1=0\\]
You can as well have it in display style:
\[e^{\pi i}+1=0\\]
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Scons and noweb
I was curious to see how I could integrate noweb and Scons.
Remember to run BibTeX first...
You can download my little Sconstruct for this, Sconstruct.example. It defines two builders. NoWeave is used to produce TeX or LaTeX documents, while NoTangle extracts the non-document artefacts, i.e. programs, config files, scripts ... It also includes productions for generating a sample program about Ackermann function:
ackdoc = env.NoWeave('ack.tex', 'ack.nw')
ackcode = env.NoTangle('ack.py', 'ack.nw')
acktest = env.NoTangle('ackTest.py', 'ack.nw')
It contains the doc chunks describing the function, the source code chunck for the relevant Python code and the code chunk for the unit test
You can try it out executing
$ scons -f Sconstruct.exampleRemember to run BibTeX first...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
LaTeX, Python and Literate Programming
In my spare time (a couple of hours per weekend...!) I am implementing calcal, a Python version of calendrica-3.0.cl, the Common Lisp implementation of the calendars from N. Dershowitz, E. M. Reingold Calendrical Calculations, 3rd Edition. (In case you are interested you can find a preview in my google page.)
At some point I decided to go Literate [Programming] using noweb. This is an experiment in the experiment but so far it has been a good choice because I can define all I need in the same place and generate documentation, source code (Python, shell scripts ...) from the same source.
I also found something interesting (on a now disappeared blog ttp://usefreetools.blogspot.com): executing Python from within LaTex! I could use it to avoid to hardcode results in my doc and just calculate them on the fly...
The same blog was showing how to build LaTeX docs using SCons: I will defenitly use it; my Makefile isn't that great nor easy to mantain.
At some point I decided to go Literate [Programming] using noweb. This is an experiment in the experiment but so far it has been a good choice because I can define all I need in the same place and generate documentation, source code (Python, shell scripts ...) from the same source.
I also found something interesting (on a now disappeared blog ttp://usefreetools.blogspot.com): executing Python from within LaTex! I could use it to avoid to hardcode results in my doc and just calculate them on the fly...
The same blog was showing how to build LaTeX docs using SCons: I will defenitly use it; my Makefile isn't that great nor easy to mantain.
Monday, February 23, 2009
My Giants
I am probably too selective, anyway my models for computer science/software engineering (one of them would disagree on both definitions) are just two: Donald E. Knuth and Alan Kay.
The first one continues to surprise me with the depth, clarity and joy of his works: from TeX (well, I use LaTex but it does not exist without TeX) to The Art of Computer Programming to Literate Programming.
About the latter, I was one of the blessed to be present to his Turing Award Lecture: he shocked me to the point I had two sleepless nights so angry I was about having wasted so much time in useless (computer) matters! After that I have been studying and using a lot of what he wrote and presented from Squeak to Croquet to the Burroughs B5000 and stack computers to his recent line of exploration and the proposal to NSF about reinventing programming (PDF).
The first one continues to surprise me with the depth, clarity and joy of his works: from TeX (well, I use LaTex but it does not exist without TeX) to The Art of Computer Programming to Literate Programming.
About the latter, I was one of the blessed to be present to his Turing Award Lecture: he shocked me to the point I had two sleepless nights so angry I was about having wasted so much time in useless (computer) matters! After that I have been studying and using a lot of what he wrote and presented from Squeak to Croquet to the Burroughs B5000 and stack computers to his recent line of exploration and the proposal to NSF about reinventing programming (PDF).
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