[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg [patch needs reviewing]

2008-10-18 Thread mhampton
I'll try to review this today or tomorrow. -M. Hampton On Oct 18, 2:28 am, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Grout wrote: > > Recently I've been working on WYSIWYG editing for the text cells of > > Sage. I've made an spkg for the TinyMCE javascript editor. The idea is > > that you

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg [patch needs reviewing]

2008-10-18 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: > Recently I've been working on WYSIWYG editing for the text cells of > Sage. I've made an spkg for the TinyMCE javascript editor. The idea is > that you can double-click on any text cell and, in-place, a TinyMCE > editor pops up that lets you edit HTML code in a familiar w

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 14, 11:11 am, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote: > > There is a WYSIWYG equation plugin for TinyMCE that has a demo page at > >http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html. > > > On Firefox it uses MathML, and on other browsers it uses a graphics > > images fallback appr

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
Peter wrote: > There is a WYSIWYG equation plugin for TinyMCE that has a demo page at > http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html . > > On Firefox it uses MathML, and on other browsers it uses a graphics > images fallback approach. The javascript svg editor plugin there also looks very intere

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Peter
There is a WYSIWYG equation plugin for TinyMCE that has a demo page at http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html . On Firefox it uses MathML, and on other browsers it uses a graphics images fallback approach. --Peter On Oct 14, 7:38 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
Peter wrote: > There is a WYSIWYG equation plugin for TinyMCE that has a demo page at > http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html . > > On Firefox it uses MathML, and on other browsers it uses a graphics > images fallback approach. Oh, wow, that looks interesting. It looks like it would be fa

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> +1 for inclusion. I think this is worth it, for the reasons given >> below by Jason. It is almost orthogonal in use to the "Its all text" >> plugin, which works great for me on WIndows but irritates me

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
Stan Schymanski wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> Does tinyMCE have any sort of equation plugin? Have you thought >> about that at all? >> >> > Could we put the html code provided by tinyMCE into an input cell and > preparse > > %hide > %html > > or > > %hideall > %html > > Then, we could

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> +1 for inclusion. I think this is worth it, for the reasons given >>> below by Jason. It is almost orthogonal in use to the

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Stan Schymanski
William Stein wrote: > Does tinyMCE have any sort of equation plugin? Have you thought > about that at all? > > Could we put the html code provided by tinyMCE into an input cell and preparse %hide %html or %hideall %html Then, we could just write e.g. $E=m*c^2$ in the tinyMCE editor and i

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 for inclusion. I think this is worth it, for the reasons given > below by Jason. It is almost orthogonal in use to the "Its all text" > plugin, which works great for me on WIndows but irritates me on macs > for some reas

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread mhampton
+1 for inclusion. I think this is worth it, for the reasons given below by Jason. It is almost orthogonal in use to the "Its all text" plugin, which works great for me on WIndows but irritates me on macs for some reason (I uninstalled it, and now I can't remember exactly why). Using Sage for co

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
Stan Schymanski wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I think that most of the developers would agree with you, but bear in > mind that a large number of potential users come from the WYSIWYG icon > clicking world. These are often the same people that get discouraged by > the need of having to install optio

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Stan Schymanski
Hi Martin, I think that most of the developers would agree with you, but bear in mind that a large number of potential users come from the WYSIWYG icon clicking world. These are often the same people that get discouraged by the need of having to install optional packages, so I wonder if there

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Jason Grout wrote: > So, do you vote > > [ ] Yes, include TinyMCE as a standard package > [ ] Yes, include TinyMCE as an optional package > [ ] No, do not include TinyMCE as a package I don't want to vote against it just know but I don't really get the need for a WYSI

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, do you vote > > [X ] Yes, include TinyMCE as a standard package > [ ] Yes, include TinyMCE as an optional package > [ ] No, do not include TinyMCE as a package > Also, if this is added I hope that somewhere the t

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > > > > [X ] Yes, include TinyMCE as a standard package > > I see no benefit going the optional route if one needs to apply some > patch, i.e. the burden to try it out is too high. The editor is well > maintained, works on seemingly all browsers, has an active community > and

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread mabshoff
[X ] Yes, include TinyMCE as a standard package I see no benefit going the optional route if one needs to apply some patch, i.e. the burden to try it out is too high. The editor is well maintained, works on seemingly all browsers, has an active community and we should really have something li

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread John Cremona
I certainly have no objections -- I had not appreciated the WYSYWIG aspect, since I hardly use such things. John 2008/10/14 Stan Schymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi John, > > I installed "It's all text" a while ago, but I have not found a way of > linking it to a WYSIWYG editor. TinyMCE is an

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Brickenstein
I made good experiences with TinyMCE in two projects. So a +1 Michael --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-14 Thread Stan Schymanski
Hi John, I installed "It's all text" a while ago, but I have not found a way of linking it to a WYSIWYG editor. TinyMCE is an office-like WYSIWYG editor, so it seems totally different to "It's all text". Just go to their web page and try it out: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php#

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for TinyMCE spkg

2008-10-13 Thread John Cremona
Firefox has an extension which does exactly this (to any text form cell on any web page) called "It's all text", which I use occasionally. That means that for firefox users your new package is -- I think -- redundant. For example, in replying to this in gmail I could have clicked something to ma