On Monday, 21 November 2016 20:35:55 UTC, William Stein wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:40 AM, John Cremona <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Some questions about Sage cloud notebooks (i.e. .sagews): 
> > 
> > 1. Is it possible to download just the input?  When I download a 
> > worksheet I get lines like 
> > 
> > 73b7ed58-0f7f-46f8-b581-e5eb9eec4da9so︠ 
> > 
> > appearing all over the place and it is tedious to edit them out.  I 
> > thought of using the "toggle output" before downloading, but that 
> > toggle button does nothing. 
>
> No.  You could use `grep -v` to remove all the input/output cell 
> markers though.  They are delimited by two unicode characters. 
>

OK, that would be a little faster than using emacs as I did.  I  suggest 
that it might be useful as an option to download input cells (perhaps with 
text cells prefixed by comment symbols).
 
In case anyone wonders why I want to do that, it's because I am using a 
free SMC account and some of the computations I want to do are 
time-consuming -- and I have plenty of powerful computers which run Sage.


> > 2. In old-style Sage notebooks it was possible to have blocks of 
> > explanatory text between cells.  The closest I found with sagews is to 
> > have a block tagged with %md but the result looks stupid since the 
> > output repeats the input.  The result is certainly not good enough to 
> > use as a demo. 
>
> You can hide the input using the toggle to the left.  Or you can do 
> %md(hide=True). 
>

Thanks, that's perfect. 

>
> > 3. There is a Help button at the top of a worksheet but all it does is 
> > enter something like help() in the worksheet itself.  What use is 
> > that? 
>
> That is not what the button does for me. 
>
> When I click the help menu, I get a dropdown menu with numerous 
> options.  When I click the help *button* I get sent to 
> https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/wiki/sagews 
>
>  Exactly what web browser and OS are you using? 
>
>
Firefox on Suse enterprise, and/or chrome on ubuntu (I forget which one I 
was using when I posted).

(1) There's a help button near the top right of the screen next to my name 
and "About", and with an icon looking like a doctor's bag (?).  When I 
right click on that to open in a new tab I just get a copy of the same tab 
I was on.  If I just click on it I get a dialogue box offering to post a 
support question.
 
(2) There's a Help button in the sagews screen next to Mode and under the 
green Run button.  That does opo up a little menu of options.  The first 
one "General Help" has the effect I said, to insert "help()" into the 
worksheet.  The  next one also inserts some command into the worksheet.  I 
was expecting to *see* some help!

> 4. I tried to see if I could open up some help in a second tab, but 
> > opening a new tab just creates a copy of the old tab which doesn't 
> > seem useful. 
>
>  

> I don't understand this question. 
>
>
I tried to explain more above (when I right-clicked).
 

> William 
>

Thanks,

John
 

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