Re: [sage-devel] Re: How to save an animation

2015-04-14 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 10:58:16 PM UTC+2, martin@gmx.net wrote: > > I don't mind additional arguments with a higher level of abstraction. But > if you want "show" as a preview to "save" (as in methods 3 and 4), then > "show" should support all the options "save" does. > Typically yo

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How to save an animation

2015-04-14 Thread martin . vgagern
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 9:21:22 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: > > The output type control for "show" should be more about what the user > wants to achieve, not the technical minutiae of file type that can achieve > it. That is, "show" should be more about raster vs. vector graphics, lossy

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How to save an animation

2015-04-14 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 8:55:58 PM UTC+2, William wrote: > > From an implementation perspective (and maybe others) it is ugly. > But from a pure usability perspective it is nice, since you only have > to remember *one* thing, the name of renderer and nothing else Yes, good. In fact, I wou

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How to save an animation

2015-04-14 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > I'm happy to expose all kinds of options to show() and save() with the > exception that: > * save requires a filename, and derives the output type from the filename > * show does not accept a filename, but has another way to control output >