On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > There was another request on sage-edu for a nice way to edit text cells > in the notebook. Patches which enable a very nice in-place wysiwyg
Just to emphasize the importance (and not meaning to hijack the thread): There was also a request by Mike May at the booth for this too. Mike May, if you don't know, is a huge resource for people who teach using Maple, as he has tons of great Maple worksheets on his website. I hope and think I convinced him that Sage is the way to go and he plans to test out Sage this semester before giving it to his students. (He seemed inclined anyway, so I just strongly encouraged his own idea.) However, he explained clearly how he teaches and that he needs the students to be able to *easily* edit the text he types into the worksheets. I've forgotten why - maybe he used the cell for computation and asks the students to enter their answer as text in a grammatically correct sentence. If Mike May does in fact switch over to Sage, this will be a huge benefit, IMHO, since he is well-known in the Maple community, so this will be a sign of confidence in Sage as a teaching platform by a widely respected teacher, and also will be a great resource for really high quality teaching materials down the road. He also agreed that the CC attribution license is acceptable to him for his "maple->Sage translated" worksheets, if he agrees to switch to Sage. (I spent some time trying to talk him out of the non-commercial CC version, which I hope was successful.) > editor for text cells are sitting on trac waiting to be reviewed. Some > people have reviewed them and found them to work well. I'm not sure how > much review is needed before they pass the test and are merged (the > patches touch a lot of notebook and javascript code). If anyone can > test them, I'm pleading for more reviews (at least, I think that's the > stage they are stuck at now). I believe the main concerns are making > sure that the patches work on a variety of platforms/browsers. Another > concern that has been expressed is a review of the javascript code (for > example, the notebook AJAX communication code was replaced with jquery > function calls). > > Instructions for applying the patches are below and at the bottom of the > ticket at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4705. Note that > some of these tickets have cleaned-up spkgs from mabshoff (listed at the > bottom of the relevant ticket) that should be tested instead of the > spkgs listed in the email below. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > Forwarded message from sage-edu: > > Luiz Felipe Martins wrote: > > > Here is a basic question: how to enter the HTML text between cells? Is > > > there a handy way to do it? The only thing I could figure out is to > > > jump back and forth from "Worksheet" to "Edit". > > > > > > (I also saw the LaTeX-Sage converter, but still have to experiment > with it.) > > > > > There is a patch under review that enables you to shift-click on the > new-cell bar and it will create an in-place wysiwyg editor (TinyMCE, see > http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php). You can edit the html > text in-place and it feels just like a normal word processor (i.e., you > don't see the html code). After saving changes, you are then able to > edit the text in-place by double-clicking on the text. > > If you would like to apply the patch and help review it, the > instructions are at the bottom of > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4705. For your convenience, > I've copied them below. > > I think the main holdup of the patches is someone reviewing them. We > need to make sure that these changes work on a wide variety of platforms > well. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > Apply the following patches from 4674, 3767, 4704, and 4705, in order: > > jsmath-spkg.patch > jquery-and-friends-spkg.2.patch > jquery-javascript-cleanup.patch > tinymce-editable.patch > safari-fix.patch > > Install the following packages from the above tickets. You may have to > do ./sage -f <spkg URL> to force an installation if you've already > installed an spkg. > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/notebook/jquery-1.2.6.spkg > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/notebook/jqueryui-1.6r807svn.spkg > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/notebook/jsmath-3.6a.spkg > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/notebook/tinyMCE-3.2.0.2.spkg > > Optionally, you can also install the jsmath image fonts by installing: > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/notebook/jsmath-image-fonts-1.3p0.spkg > > > > Now rebuild sage by starting sage with "sage -br" > > Now you should be able to shift-click on a new cell bar to create a text > cell using tinyMCE. You should also be able to double-click on an > existing text cell to edit it in-place. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
