On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net>wrote:
> Le 08/07/2013 10:51, Nils Bruin a écrit : > >> On Monday, July 8, 2013 4:05:29 AM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> Frédéric Chapoton has written a patch at >> http://trac.sagemath.org/14733 >> <http://trac.sagemath.org/**14733<http://trac.sagemath.org/14733>> >> that >> >> will beautify the Sage startup banner using some UTF-8 characters to >> draw the box. This will display incorrectly in terminals that do not >> support UTF-8. In that case, Sage still works but the box around the >> banner is garbled (most likely rendered by placeholder signs for >> non-ASCII characters). >> >> >> -1 to a UTF-8 banner. There's hardly anything in the sage command line >> that requires a UTF-8 capable terminal (all the colour stuff should shut >> off automatically for a "dumb" terminal). Why require it for *just* the >> banner? >> >> More personally, I dislike the UTF-8 banner because it looks too nice. >> To me it doesn't fit with the simple prompt-and-return-value interface >> (see banners of magma, maple, R, matlab, pari/GP, python, IPython, GAP, >> Singular). The "graphics" looking lines are more suggestive of a >> menu-driven interface to me, like the text-based "dialog" interfaces. So >> to me, the "+-|"-built borders raise expectations more appropriate for >> what sage command line offers. >> > > -1 too for the same reasons. > > Keep the banner short and simple ; people don't come to sage to enjoy that > sight! I agree, no need to have fancy unicode here. If you're doing something that requires nice output you should probably be using a notebook interface anyways; the CLI interface just isn't going to go there and going part way is worse than just keeping things simple. - Robert -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
