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Cantor is an application that 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 is a front-end for many mathematical software applications like Sage, Maxima, R and KAlgebra. Cantor belongs to [[http://edu.kde.org/|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
 * [[http://ghns.freedesktop.org/|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>
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http://pastebin.com/m28be29f
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= Install Cantor =
 * [[daysmarseille|Sage Days 20]] -- Marseille, France (February 22-26, 2010); theme: Combinatorics
 * [[http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/09-10/sage/index.html|Sage Days 20.5]] -- Toronto, Canada (May 3-7, 2010); theme: Algebraic Combinatorics,
 * Type this 4 commands:
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 mkdir build
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 cd build
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 cmake ../
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Please see http://edu.kde.org/cantor/ for more detail  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 ...
 *
 *

= Links =
 * Official Site - http://edu.kde.org/cantor/
 * Author's Blog - http://arieder.wordpress.com/
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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: cd cantor mkdir build cd build cmake ../ 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 ...

Links


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