On Nov 28, 2011 11:31 AM, "Emil Widmann" <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > What do you have in mind? I have some ideas for more advanced editing, > > but the technology and tools are catching up at this point (i.e., we > > could do it, but outside projects are approaching the right > > capabilities, so I'd rather use actively-maintained outside projects). > > Hi Jason, > > I was thinking in the line of the OP, some mixture of advanced Text > Input / Formating with Mathematics. > I might know to little about the current capabilities of the notebook > in that respect, but I think the only possibility is to either write > Text (or Html, or Latex) in the cell or change to the "Edit" View and > insert Text/Html between Cells in a kind of Source View. So it would > be cool to click between cells and have the option to insert either a > new calculation cell or just some formatted text, or pictures/graphs, > typesetted formulas or even animations or videos so the notebook > worksheet is a potential multimedia document.
Fortunately, Jason Grout added basically that feature to the Sage notebook about 3 or 4 years ago. Try shift clicking on the blue line that appears when you put your mouse between code cells. - william > Thinking further, there could be even some stylesheets in the > background, so it would be possible to generate typesetted pdfs > directly from the notebook, or readymade html for an internet page. > > Slightly better access to the notebook controls would also be nice - > if you have a long worksheet you have to scroll back to top to change > the celltype (and then back to bottom). Of course there might be some > advanced editing already in place which I am not aware of, but in that > case it is not visibly exposed to the user. > > I think - like you - that there is existing editing code out there, so > one would not have to reinvent the wheel. Maybe it is even possible to > define some interface and different plugins (html, latex) could be > used for different purposes or tastes. So this are just my 5 Cents. I > know that this will need people to make it happen, but I think it > could be cool if it would develop in that direction. > > cheers > emil > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
