On Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 1:46:34 PM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: > > Yes you can set it up the way you want, this is about what a sane DEFAULT > is. And the best machine parseable output is, like the best output for the > visually impared, not the best output for the majority of our potential > users. On the plus side they will never become our users as long as we try > to push them away, so there is that. > > For attracting novice users who care about presentation of results, I would guess the terminal-based output is basically irrelevant. I had the mixed pleasure recently of using maple quite extensively (for a course), and the nice 2d output in the maple worksheets is definitely a thing they got right.
There are a few other things they got wrong, such as: - failure to suppress long output appropriately (for sequences, which remain indispensable), combined with the habit of, by default, echoing assignments. It means default usage can easily crash the user interface. - the default 2d entry mode. I think that having good, stable, mathjax output in worksheets is going to be much more effective in making sage palatable to novices than trying to get approximations via unicode art. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
