What if we used something like ProseMirror for the markdown editor? http://prosemirror.net/. Would that help? Right now we use Codemirror.
I'm writing a prototype for the next Jupyter notebook renderer as we speak (markdown cells are here, for example: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-js-cells/blob/master/src/widget.ts#L110). Pull requests welcome, as always :). Jason On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:55 PM kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another con I just discovered: > * You have to learn markdown to do anything useful in plain old text. > > Don't tell me this isn't a con. (If it's not accurate, please tell me! I > just couldn't figure out how to get > > Now, I know enough md to get by. Lots of people use it. Lots of *other* > people (see, I used it!) would rather have at least SOME whizzy-wig > capability. 'Cuz why else does the interface I'm using right now in Google > Groups have things *like this or **this* or even bullet lists to click > (perhaps they use TinyMCE themselves)? It should be just as much about > reducing learning curves as the "right" solution. I hate having to > remember if links are [like this](url) or (this)[url] or even [url like > this] (oh wait, that's the Trac style). Google lets me do this > <http://www.sagemath.org> with a simple click. > > To be productive on this front and not just complain, I did a fair amount > of searching for wysiwyg or tinymce and jupyter and found almost nothing. > Could this be a replacement? https://github.com/bollwyvl/nb-wysiwyg I > also found this nice article > <http://jupyter.cs.brynmawr.edu/hub/dblank/public/Jupyter%20Notebook%20Users%20Manual.ipynb#4.-Using-Markdown-Cells-for-Writing> > which (correctly) claims "Why is Markdown better? Well, it’s worth saying > that maybe it isn't. Mainly, it’s not actually a question of better or > worse, but of what’s in front of you and of who you are. A definitive > answer depends on the user and on that user’s goals and experience. These > Notebooks don't use Markdown because it's definitely better, but rather > because it's different and thus encourages users to think about their work > differently." But not everyone, especially those instructors in a hurry, > have time to think about that on a first try. If they end up writing a > book I hope they do! But if they just want to make an example for class > it's a bit much. > > Hopefully Jupyter will be able to have an option to have wysiwyg > eventually, though I understand that might conflict with their design > goals. In which case their design goals are not really for > non-programmers. > > Practical example, lest someone think I'm beating up on a straw notebook > interface: > Someone makes an awesome 3d plot in Jupyter with vectors and parametric > things in red, blue, and green, labeling different things. Now in the main > body of their text they want the same output, so they can talk about green > tangent vectors, blue normal vectors, and red curves, or something, in > those colors. Lovely stuff. They Google how to do this in md and get: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19746350/how-does-one-change-color-in-markdown-cells-ipython-notebook > Result: the text stays all black for the presentation they have to do in > ten minutes. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
