William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Jason Grout<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> > wrote: >> Fernando Perez wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:45 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Mike Hansen and I just spent a while carefully going through: >>>> >>>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageUsability >>>> >>>> and updated it with more ideas... >>> I wonder if it would be totally crazy to consider using reST as the >>> native notebook format, or at least have it be optionally so. >>> >>> I know that one can already execute 'live' sphinx docs in html, which >>> is super cool. But given that reST has support for input and output >>> code blocks (which it can even doctest), I'd really like to basically >>> edit in the notebook itself reST sources, with text cells being plain >>> reST, input cells being code blocks and output being 'text' code >>> blocks, as suggested here: >>> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev/browse_thread/thread/ecbcea0ab4d1ca78/86e3da68e1576f7a >>> >>> I don't know enough about all the sphinx machinery yet to see if there >>> are any fatal flaws in this idea, and given the amount of existing >>> worksheets out there obviously such a change couldn't be done lightly. >>> But I'm so happy with using sphinx more and more, that being able to >>> simultaneously edit reST and execute code seems really appealing to >>> me. >>> >>> Does this sound possible/reasonable/useful? > > Yes, definitely!! And for exactly the reasons you list above and > Jason below. >
At the same time, I think it would be big mistake to give up easy WYSIWYG editing of text cells. Is it easy to convert between HTML and ReST (both directions)? If so, I think it would be easy to make a text cell toggleable between TinyMCE and a textbox that would let you put in ReST. Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
