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Re: [Fhsst-authors] Free High School Science Texts
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Peter Hutnick |
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Re: [Fhsst-authors] Free High School Science Texts |
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Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:47:27 -0700 |
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Sam Halliday wrote:
Peter Hutnick wrote:
I guess that algebra.tex is abandoned?
no, its just not on the syllabus; so its of minor importance. also i
lost heart when i failed to find football examples for the group thoery
:-/. i wanted that to be the theme: and i had the silliest person in the
world understanding some basic set theory after one sitting... so i
don't want to give up all hope! :-) i have a print out of it i made
months ago with lots of red on it... maybe i should write it up and
commit those changes.
Football being the game with goalies and a round ball?
Do you think that group theory is appropriate for High School? I'm not
a Mathematician, but it is my impression that groups is Abstract
Algebra. I am not trained in Abstract Algebra . . . I'll be sticking to
Elementary Algebra.
I'm looking at "TeX for the Impatient" right now. For my project
(La)TeX with a text editor just is not an option. We'll see how
things work out.
thats ok... if you want to give us anything, we can convert it.
converting badly made LaTeX from LyX is by far a much easier task than
transcribing from .doc files. the LaTeX we use should be simple maths
stuff... i don't think we even use the amsmaths adons or anything. LaTeX
is much easier than you'd think, really :-) get Emacs with the AucTeX
adon... it'll make life a hell of a lot easier for you!
That gives me something to go on.
I have one more question. What TeX environment do you guys use. I'm
stuck with Windows at work and no Internet connection at home (where I
run GNU/Linux). I made a dvi from "hsalgebra.tex" with the Cygwin
version of LaTeX and it was completely broken.
[Use Emacs and RTFM]
I hate Emacs.
I will RTFM. Thanks for being so gentle about it.
How are dialectical issues being addressed? I think I saw the word
revision used where an American would say "review." (This difference is
non-trivial, as when we say "revision" we mean something like vetting.)
Is there a reasonable way to manage this sort of
internationali[s|z]ation in TeX? Does this group think it would be a
good idea to try to identify problematic words and phrases? Is everyone
just writing in his native dialect and hoping that it all works out in
the editing?
-Peter
[Fhsst-authors] Re: [Fhsst-admin-priv] Re: Free High School Science Texts, Sam Halliday, 2004/04/01