On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > On 2-Apr-08, at 2:53 PM, David Kohel wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On the subject of notebook features: > > > > > > One feature that would be really nice is to have distinct text cells, > > > in html or > > > even better latex mode. > > > > +1 -- I was surprised that I couldn't figure out how to make a cell > > "just text" in the notebook a few days ago. > > > > Nick > > > > I want to add that I'm *not* suggesting in my previous email that the > functionality > you want is in Sage. Just that there is some related functionality. > > Regarding exporting to latex, that has been on the todo list for a > long long time. > It is trac ticket #66: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/66 > > I don't think the notebook is going to seriously go anywhere until there > are actually people that want to work on developing it and know what > they are doing. IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? Since I don't > know of a single person seriously interested on working on the usability > and polish of the notebook, even for money. Anybody? This is probably a good time to let others know our plans with Knoboo (A general web+desktop computation notebook - www.knoboo.com). We continue to spend a *massive amount* of time working on Knoboo - some recent work has been done by Dorian Raymer to get Knoboo working (almost perfectly) with Sage. I invite people to look through the Knoboo trac site: http://trac.knoboo.com/browser and see the effort, code, and incoming additions. --- In case it is unclear, I want to stress that one very immediate and 'almost' complete goal is that with extremely minimal configuration: => Knoboo is exactly like the Sage notebook, but more feature rich, professional looking, and consisting of well thought out, decoupled pieces <= now the above statement is slighlty 'vapor-ware -ish', but as anyone who has worked on the notebook knows, it's hard and time-consuming. period. I'm confident that if you look through our trac timeline ( http://trac.knoboo.com/timeline) and try out the svn trunk: ( svn co svn://www.knoboo.com/trunk/knoboo ), even if you see some bugs / missing features, you will know we are very serious about this goal. --- Just to relate to the subject of this thread, one *awesome* feature already in Knoboo is abitrary nesting of cells: code cells, section (text) cells, and plain text cells, (section plain-text cells can be added with a simple right click on an existing cell) There is also some latex functionality, which Dorian has recently put in, which he might be able to comment more on. --- So in summary, there are people *very seriously* working on the notebook, in the above mentioned form :) -Alex > > > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
