Cantor

Cantor is a front-end for many mathematical software applications like Sage, Maxima, R and KAlgebra. Cantor belongs to The KDE Education Project and lets you use your favorite mathematical applications from within a nice KDE-integrated Worksheet Interface. It offers assistant dialogs for common tasks and allows you to share your worksheets with others.

Cantor's main features are:

Nice Worksheet view for evaluating expressions
View of plotting results inside the worksheet or in a separate window
Easy plugin based structure to add different Backends
GetHotNewStuff integration to upload/download example worksheets
Typesetting of mathematical formulas using LaTeX
Backend aware syntax highlighting
Plugin based assistant dialogs for common tasks (like integrating a function or entering a matrix)

Install Cantor

Here a way to build only cantor

First obtain the sources

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/cantor

Replace the the content of cantor/CMakeLists.txt with this

<pre> czzxc zxcz </pre>

http://pastebin.com/m28be29f

Type this 4 commands

<code> cd cantor mkdir build cd build cmake ../ </code>

You can choose where to install with this param DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX For example: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/ ../

Type this command

<code> make install </code>

Using Sage with Cantor

Worksheet managment ...

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Install Cantor

Using Sage with Cantor

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