On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Stan Schymanski wrote:
> Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> [SNIP]
>> Making notebook IDs that are not simply consecutive
>> integers would solve nearly all of your issues above, and I think a
>> lot of people (myself included) would appreciate that. Either short
>> names or globally unique identifiers (or some combination of both)
>> would be a step forward.
>>
>>
> I remember an earlier discussion of this, which I think concluded that
> we want to keep the worksheet names independent of file system naming
> conventions.
Yes. Ideally they could be stored in a database as well as stored on a
filesystem. It would be nice if it were easy to query, even from
outside a running notebook session.
> I would also be in favour of unique, static directory names
> that show up in the front end. The user could still add more
> descriptive
> names in addition to the directory names, but it would be nice if we
> could refer to other worksheets by their names. The next step would
> be
> to create scripts that check any cross-references if a worksheet is
> re-named; probably not an easy task (?). And if we are at that, I
> would
> really appreciate a way of referring to particular cells in a
> worksheet
> by their labels (e.g. \ref{ws:mass_balance1, cell:dMdt}). Maybe a
> script
> that goes through a whole notebook and checks cross-references in all
> work sheets could then also convert such labels to consecutive
> numbers,
> similarly to LaTex (?).
If worksheet IDs under the hood are globally unique random numbers,
and a concordance of name -> ids are kept, one wouldn't have to worry
about doing a grand find-and-replace if a name changed.
- Robert
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