I don't see how removing the very nice ability to document source code with Markdown and Latex Math mode will help to improve notebooks. I'd certainly not like to read mathematical formulas inside Python comments. That would be very unreadable. There is also HTML output of cells, which is persisted in the notebook's JSON afaik, so it's not suddenly all only Python or R or whatever source code if you remove Markdown. It is also the visualizations of already computed things, which is persisted. That in itself is quite important if you have lengthy calculations and simply want to show a notebook without rerunning the computations.
With the other parts I can agree. Running selected code could be a great feature. However, I like the ability to separate "computation ideas" / "steps" by using separate code cells and putting Markdown documentation of what I am doing in between the code cells. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/b349840b-71ca-41df-92c8-22cc71df2484%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
