On Monday, 1 September 2014 00:29:10 UTC+2, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > > Well, I have some comments: > > 1) You are just searching for the FriCAS prompt pattern. You could have > used the iohooks to inject a very specific string that makes it easier > to detect prompt, latex, and type. > > iohooks? Are they documented somewhere? Indeed it would be much easier if one could request specific information than to filter it out by regexp.
> 2) Maybe it would be a good idea to already test my new TexFormat. > Something I could probably try to investigate. > > By all means. As you can see in the notebook sample there are some caveats. Moreover I had to prefix all TeX output in order to get MathJax work (\sp,\sb,\leqno ...). BTW you can play around with the code at its destination (somewhere in /.../dist-utils), so you don't have to reinstall the kernel after editing. > 3) I'm definitely for option (B), i.e., something without pexpect. > What exactly do you think can be tested with your prototype. > > > Of course, (B) should be the goal. However, what you will see in the frontend is not much different from what you see using the wrapper kernel. I'm not yet really convinced if it is worthwile to (whoever) undertake such a tedious task, at least not before recognizing the benefits, though I admit the qtconsole is quite handy if its features are fully utilized. What I suppose should/could be tested: - completion already works (bit primitive) but it should provide more information (as in Python), i.e. - inspection and history - syntax highlighting (pygments) - plotting (matplotlib?) ... and finally, rather important to me, the re-usability of the notebook's. I agree that for educational purposes it's nice and tidy, however, what can I do with them? With TeXmacs I can write (in plain LaTeX) papers, slides and so on using executable folds which save a lot of typing and if you want to submit, just do 'export', voilà. Sorry for advocating again ... Kurt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
