On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 7:00:56 AM UTC-4, Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: > > To add on Travis post, some rationale for having default LaTeX typeset > outputs in the Jupyter notebook is > - Jupyter is scheduled to be the default notebook in Sage 8.0 > - It is likely that users (especially beginners) who employ the notebook > instead of the console are expecting to have "nice" outputs > - A strength of Sage, as compared e.g. to Mathemetica, is to provide LaTeX > typeset display > - However, currently, one must type "%display latex" in some cell to > trigger LaTeX typesetting; it is very likely that a beginner will miss this > > In the Sage notebook sagenb, there was since forever a "Typeset output" button which accomplished this. I know we don't want to fork the Jupyter notebook. But I hope people are seeing why William might have decided to implement sagews beyond ipynb (though I don't know whether that supports this so obviously).
However, with regard to this, I don't think the default should be typesetting everything, and I don't think it should be default for "easy" stuff either. There should instead be a very easy obvious way to make this happen that is then amply documented. Preferably not always a percent directive - I am starting to hate those (when they are the only option) because anyone with CLI experience thinks they are obvious, and anyone without it would be hopelessly confused. - kcrisman -- 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 sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
