On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > alex clemesha wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Nick Alexander > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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 > > <http://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 <= > > > Just curious: does Knoboo implement anything like the new @interact > functionality? That is a big plus for me in the current Sage notebook. I agree that the @interact is awesome, but it is pretty badly coupled to the other pieces of the Sage notebook and HTML. This is actually a big issue which materializes when others try to add new functionality and extend existing functionality. It's an issue of markup (HTML) vs data (plot points) basically. I've done some work related to this using the "flot" ( http://code.google.com/p/flot/) javascript library (a jquery plugin) that does plotting and allows a great deal of interactivity and extendability because you only pass it raw data (JSON objects). Here is an example of it in action, which dynamically redraws the plot after each interaction (it gets raw plot point data with Ajax calls): http://alex.knoboo.com/earthquake/ (the example is an earthquake event explorer prototype thing I did at work) I do want to say again that the @interact functionality is awesome, and we hope to have something similar, but nothing exists now. > > > Incidentally, recently I was trying very hard to remember the name of > this project, but couldn't and I couldn't find it when searching, > several times. What's the reasoning behind the name? (If I have that, > it'll probably be easier to remember the name). *Kno*wledge Note*boo*k Knoboo. (Rhymes with Yahoo!) It's a little quirky, but I kinda like it! ;) -Alex > > > Jason > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
