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 * Viewing Sage objects with a PDF viewer (INSERT CREDIT) -- Implements the option {{{viewer="pdf"}}} for the command {{{view()}}} so that one can invoke this command in the form {{{view(object, viewer="pdf")}}} in order to view {{{object}}} using a PDF viewer. Typical uses of this new optional argument include:
  * You prefer to use a PDF viewer rather than a DVI viewer.
  * You want to view LaTeX snippets which are not displayed well in DVI viewers (e.g. graphics produced using tikzpicture).

Sage 4.0 Release Tour

Sage 4.0 was released on FIXME. For the official, comprehensive release note, please refer to sage-4.0.txt. A nicely formatted version of this release tour can be found at FIXME. The following points are some of the foci of this release:

Algebra

Algebraic Geometry

Basic Arithmetic

Build

Calculus

Coercion

Combinatorics

Commutative Algebra

Distribution

Doctest

Documentation

Geometry

Graph Theory

Graphics

Group Theory

Interfaces

  • Viewing Sage objects with a PDF viewer (INSERT CREDIT) -- Implements the option viewer="pdf" for the command view() so that one can invoke this command in the form view(object, viewer="pdf") in order to view object using a PDF viewer. Typical uses of this new optional argument include:

    • You prefer to use a PDF viewer rather than a DVI viewer.
    • You want to view LaTeX snippets which are not displayed well in DVI viewers (e.g. graphics produced using tikzpicture).

Linear Algebra

Miscellaneous

Modular Forms

Notebook

Number Theory

Numerical

Packages

P-adics

Quadratic Forms

Symbolics

Topology

User Interface

Website / Wiki

ReleaseTours/sage-4.0 (last edited 2009-12-26 14:59:17 by Minh Nguyen)