On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Joachim Durchholz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 04.06.2012 23:22, schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > >> Considering Stefan's words, can you see any use cases for boldface in >> pretty printing which cannot be addressed by having LaTeX output? > > > Yes - acute LaTeX allergy ;-)
:-D > Jokes aside, I can see that it's a more seamless workflow if you can see the > results right in the SymPy console without having to transfer results to a > LaTeX viewer. Since we only have boldface in mind, I wonder how much more seamless it's going to make the interaction with SymPy console :-) I start with the assumption that nothing in SymPy really needs colours. I may be wrong (though I'd be surprised to hear that). > The real question (and the one which I can't answer) is whether having > boldface is really enough of a difference in practice to warrant the extra > effort. > It might be interesting to find out how much extra effort is really needed; > if it turns out that all consoles in practical use interpret the same escape > sequences, then sure, why not; if we're getting into maintenance nightmares > because of a maze of little twisty standards, all marginally different, then > hell no. Yes, indeed, that's the salient point. I tried to address it with the suggestion to use standard escape sequences and do nothing when those won't work. Apparently, this shouldn't require "too" much of effort, but will surely not cover all of the audience (not even 90% of it, I'd guess). I'm not really sure about how checking whether ANSI escape sequence works. This may be another bit of a headache, if it there isn't something terminfo/termcap-like for all terminal emulators, and I guess there isn't. Sergiu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
