Firefox has an extension which does exactly this (to any text form cell on any web page) called "It's all text", which I use occasionally. That means that for firefox users your new package is -- I think -- redundant.
For example, in replying to this in gmail I could have clicked something to make an emacs window pop up to compose my reply in. That is sometimetimes useful -- though not for simple things like this message! john 2008/10/14 Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (My first message didn't seem to go through, so I'm trying this again.) > > Recently I've been working on WYSIWYG editing for the text cells of > Sage. I've made an spkg for the TinyMCE javascript editor. The idea is > that you can double-click on any text cell and, in-place, a TinyMCE > editor pops up that lets you edit HTML code in a familiar word-processor > sort of environment. I think this will make editing text in a worksheet > *much* easier and more accessible. > > Information for this program > ---------------------------- > > Website: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ > > License: LGPL > > Demo of TinyMCE: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php (this > includes a lot of plugins I don't plan on including because I think it's > better to be simpler). > > Trac tickets: #4255 and #4267 > > I've made an spkg for TinyMCE and relevant patches to enable its > functionality at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4255. > Unfortunately, it also is intertwined with spkgs and the patch up at > 4267, so to try it out, do the following: > > 1. Apply the jeditable-tinymce.patch patch from #4255 > 2. Apply the make-javascript-spkgs.patch patch at #4267 > 3. Install all of the spkgs listed at #4267, except the > jsmath-images spkg if you don't want. > 4. Optionally, apply the extcode patch at #4267, which deletes the > packages from the extcode directory. > > Then please read the instructions on the ticket to try this out; > creating text cells is still not completely obvious. I am working on > making creating text cells easier soon. The patch makes it so that Sage > checks to see if TinyMCE is installed before enabling the features, so > it's not necessary that TinyMCE be a standard spkg. > > Note that the jqueryui spkg at 4267 will change the default theme for > interact sliders. This is purely a cosmetic issue and can be reverted > back to the theme we currently have. > > The TinyMCE javascript editor is very actively developed. TinyMCE has a > nice plugin architecture and includes capabilities such as a WYSIWYG > table editor, the standard formatting commands, a special > paste-from-word feature that does a decent job of letting you paste > directly from a word document into the html cell, etc. It is very > cross-platform and cross-browser (see > http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Compatibility). The main > competitor to TinyMCE is FCKEdit, and from what I've seen and > read, TinyMCE generates cleaner HTML code. TinyMCE is the > standard editor bundled with Wordpress (popular blogging software), and > a list of CMS systems which either have a TinyMCE plugin or include it > in the software are listed at > http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:CMS_systems. > > Another person's review of javascript editors is here: > http://www.garretwilson.com/blog/2008/07/27/javascriptxhtmleditors.xhtml, > which concludes that there is no perfect, or really even really good, > javascript editor, but TinyMCE is the best available. > > > The downside to using TinyMCE is that it adds another 150k or so to the > javascript downloads (using the plugins that I enabled in it). However, > usually this is cached by the browser, so it is a one-time cost. If we > ever figure out how to turn on the automatic gzip compression on twisted > connections, this downside will be dramatically reduced. Even with the > extra 150k, though, I feel that the usability benefits far outweigh the > costs. > > So, do you vote > > [ ] Yes, include TinyMCE as a standard package > [ ] Yes, include TinyMCE as an optional package > [ ] No, do not include TinyMCE as a package > > > I personally think that the most prudent choice now is to include it as > an optional package, merge the patch at #4255, and let a few people try > it out. I hope to have easy text-cell creation done "real soon now", > which would enable people to just shift-click on the "add-new-cell" line > and get a new text cell with a TinyMCE edit box if it's installed. I > would hope then that we could include TinyMCE in as a standard package. > I think this would make sage notebooks much friendlier to people > wanting to annotate the mathematics with prose and explanation. > > Of course, questions are welcome. > > > Thanks, > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
