Re: [Fhsst-authors] Free High School Science Texts

[Peter Hutnick]

Sam Halliday wrote:

> Peter Hutnick wrote:
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> > I guess that algebra.tex is abandoned?
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> 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.
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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.
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> 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!
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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.
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> [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