Serge A. Salamanka wrote:
> It will be great to enable Sage with 2D input.
> 
> Any ideas how to do this ?
> 

One easy thing to do would be to have a bunch of "helpers" for easy 
things, like matrices.  A student clicks on a button, and a javascript 
window pops up that lets them specify the size, entries (in tabular 
form) and possibly a base ring for a matrix.  When they click "submit" 
or something, it pastes the code for that matrix into the current cursor 
position.

At least I think this would be easy.

Jason



> #Serge
> 
> [email protected] пишет:
>> Ben Woodruff wrote:
>>> Do you know if 2D math input is in the process of being developed, 
>>> such as being able to type matrices in matrix format instead of having 
>>> to create a list of lists.
>> I assume you mean like how Mathematica uses ctrl-enter and ctrl-comma to 
>> create a grid of inputs in their notebook.  As far as I know, there is 
>> no one actively developing 2d math input in Sage.  One issue is that 
>> currently, anything you can type into the notebook, you can also type 
>> into the command line or into a script.  That is very nice (sort of like 
>> some of the good statistical packages always make sure that anything you 
>> can do, you can also from the command line and in a script).
>>
>> Well, I take that back.  There are a couple of people actively 
>> developing a graph editor (graphs as in vertices and edges).  You'd be 
>> able to point and click to create and edit graphs.  I think the idea is 
>> that it would then spit back into a cell the text that is equivalent to 
>> what you pointed and clicked.
>>
>> I can see it being fairly easy to make a small little popup window that 
>> lets you type in a matrix as a grid, and then when you close the
>> window, it inserts the corresponding code for creating a matrix into the 
>> current position of a cell.
>>
>> Also, as I mentioned earlier, there is a 2d math equation editor that 
>> Davide Cervone started (the author of jsmath).  A while ago he mentioned 
>> that a student was working on it, but I don't know if anything has come 
>> out of it yet.
>>
>> I'm forwarding this reply to the sage-devel mailing list.  Someone there 
>> may know of someone working on 2d math input.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
> 
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