On 21-Aug-09, at 4:00 PM, John H Palmieri wrote:

>
> Here's a proposal: the banner could look like this (looks best in
> fixed-width font -- the first line and the last two lines are
> centered):
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> |            Sage version 4.1.1, release date 2009-08-14             |
> |                                                                    |
> | * Type "notebook()" for the notebook interface.                    |
> | * Type "sage_help()" for help.                                     |
> | * Type "quit" (or ctrl-D) to quit.                                 |
> |                                                                    |
> |     Sage is distributed under the GNU General Public License;      |
> |               type "license()" for more information.               |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------


-1 for me.

I am not going to fight this vigorously, but this is *much* too long  
for my taste.  And it looks terrible in anything but a fixed width  
font.  One line of version info, one line of help, maybe one line of  
license.  If that.

Nick

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