On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 8:12:25 AM UTC-4, Thomas Passin wrote:

> On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 6:48:29 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>>
>> Thomas Passin and I have been discussing his vr3 plugin in private. This 
>> is a great plugin. Our conversation deserves to be public.
>>
>> Here I am going to discuss what I think I know about vr3 and its 
>> relationship with the holoviews <http://holoviews.org/>and bokeh 
>> <https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide.html>packages.  I'll 
>> keep this as short as possible.
>> [snip]
>>
>  

> I wonder, though, whether some of the rST code is necessary. Thomas, 
>> wouldn't it be simpler (for users) for vr3 to support something like:
>>
>> @language rst
>> Here is the resulting interactive graph:
>> @image curve.html
>>
>
> Not in this case, because the output is interactive javascript code, not 
> just an image file.  Matplotlib will produce an image file, and then you 
> could probably do it that way.
>
> Also, for there to be an @image directive, we'd have to think it through 
> carefully to understand what should happen if someone put one into the 
> middle of a code block.  In principle, it would be a good thing to have a 
> language-agnostic directive like this that you could use the same way with 
> both MD and RsT, so the idea is attractive from that point of view.
>

If we were to adopt an @image directive, then we ought to also adopt an 
@html-blob one.  This would be used for interactive plots from Bokeh, 
animations, etc.

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