Stan Schymanski wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I think that most of the developers would agree with you, but bear in > mind that a large number of potential users come from the WYSIWYG icon > clicking world. These are often the same people that get discouraged by > the need of having to install optional packages, so I wonder if there is > a way of including something as standard but providing a way of > deselecting it for advanced users? Something like the standard version > with bells and whistles for the newbie and a customised version for the > wiz. > > I have the feeling that TinyMCE could make the notebook more attractive > to users that are not familiar with writing code. They could ease into > coding slowly. Since the generated html code still appears in the > notebook, this would be a nice way of learning html, too. Eventually, > the user is likely to need it less and less and do his own html coding, > at which point he could deselect the package again.
Yes, that is the point for me; to make the barrier of entry low or non-existent. In other words, a new user should be able to quickly and easily create a nice-looking worksheet without having to learn both Sage and ReST, especially since learning ReST is not a mathematical activity. I'm not saying that they shouldn't learn ReST eventually, but I think that learning Sage will be enough of a learning curve that we shouldn't insist that they learn yet another language in order to be able to write text in their worksheet. FYI, the spkg is around 500k, and installed, it is about 2.4M. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
