On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 2:01 PM Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Now, if we could only include the Jupyter interface in the
> > FriCAS distribution
>
> Well, yes, but, although I would like to see this offered, doing it
> the pip way or via installation from the github repo, is easy
> enough for early adopters to install the jfricas jupyter kernel.
>

Well yes easy but ... First, doing it this way makes it almost
invisible except if we actually start actively discussing it here.
Second, as I recall (correct me if I am wrong) this means that a
specific binary SBCL-based version of FriCAS is installed with a
Lisp-level library for Jupyter kernel support.  In order to add it to
the FriCAS distribution I presume that this would have to be extended
to support a wider range of Lisps and hopefully packaged in a way that
at least the interface part was distributed with FriCAS. Of course
Jupyter itself would have to be loaded in whatever way was standard
for the Jupyter user and then the kernel from the FriCAS distribution
appropriately installed. This would be closer to the way that we
support TeXmacs.

> I must admit that I would like some people to work with it, but
> to propose it for everyday use, it is maybe a bit early. I see in
> particular problems when using mathjax with big output. Sure
> one can always switch to ordinary algebra output, but mathjax
> looks better. Unfortunately, mathjax takes quite some time to
> render.
>

How easy would it be to try KaTeX? https://katex.org/ Maybe someone
has already tried this?

> > and decide on a way to render graphics (See previous discussion
> > with Kurt.) then we would have a viable web-based user interface
> > for FriCAS.
>
> I hope that some day Kurt has enough time to come up with a new
> graphics framework that even works in jupyter.
>

It seems to me that Kurt has already experimented with several options
and that his opinion was that we should just pick one of these and run
with it.

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