On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
> > Hi Pavel, > > thanks a lot for the feedback on the notebook. I think every single > point that you raised annoys me too and it should be fixed. > > I have also CCed sage-devel. > > Ondrej > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Pavel Solin <so...@unr.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > by now I spent many hours with programming inside the > > web notebook, so here are some suggestions how to make > > this kind of work more pleasant: > > > > (1) Coloring source code would help a lot. > This was explored before, I believe, and found too slow. I think this merits a bit of looking into again, though, since Javascript engines have sped up by a lot recently. I'm sure we can take some inspiration from Bespin ( http://bespin.mozilla.com). > > (2) Saving worksheets is cumbersome, there should be > > a possibility to save all user's worksheets at once. > +1. > > (3) When image is saved and latex some text written to output, the > > image anyway appears after the text. So one does not > > have an opportunity to create a sequence of images > > with some text description below each of them. This should > > be fixed. > I'm not certain I understand this. > > (4) If the program becomes longer, it is cumbersome to > > scroll down to the "evaluate" button, then look at the output, > > then scroll a long way up again to fix a minor issue, and > > repeat the whole process. Most of the time, one only works on > > one function but needs to scroll through the text of all the > > other ones too. It would help a lot to be able to collapse > > functions which are not being edited at the moment (but > > they still would be evaluated all together). > Code folding, then? There is a workaround for this: placing each function into its own cell, which is what I do. Although yeah, this would be handy. Once again, Bespin can serve as inspiration. +1. > > (5) Undo was already discussed, this functionality is much needed. > This is partially fulfilled by auto-save + revisions, although I believe William is working on improvements on that. Well, +1. > > (6) The default graphical resolution of images is not too good. > > It would be nice to have some handle on it, as well as on their > > size and position in the browser. It should be possible to > > put several of them next to each other horizontally, etc. > > Perhaps this is possible and I just do not know how to do it. > +1. I think matplotlib can output SVG files (can someone confirm?), so maybe we should use them instead. > > (7) I have now approx. 8 different worksheets for elementary > > numerical methods and there will be (hopefully many) more. > > It would be useful for me to compose my private "library" from > > which I could then import any of them in the same way as things > > are imported from sympy, numpy etc. This would greatly > > facilitate classroom demonstrations. +oo. > > > > Best, > > > > Pavel > > > > -- > > Pavel Solin > > University of Nevada, Reno > > http://hpfem.math.unr.edu/people/pavel/ > > Hermes project: http://hpfem.org/ > > FEMhub project: http://femhub.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- Tim Joseph Dumol <tim (at) timdumol (dot) com> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
