Hello everyone. I've been thinking about improving our "screenshots" section of the webpage (http://sympy.org/en/screenshots.html). Currently, it has just one simple example that hardly shows the power of SymPy. I'd love to hear suggestions on how we could improve it. In particular,
- I think we should use actual "screenshots". The reason is that for 99% of people, the Unicode pretty-printing, which I would like to use for most of the examples, will not look good in the browser in plain text. This is due to font substitution that replaces Unicode characters with ones of different widths, making different lines in the output appear shifted. You've probably all noticed this in pages in our docs that use Unicode pretty printing, such as http://docs.sympy.org/0.7.1/modules/polys/wester.html. Unless someone knows how to force characters to align exactly in the browser like they do in a terminal, I think that screenshots of an actual terminal screen will be the best bet. The downside of course is that the examples won't be copyable, though we could also provide plain text for that. - What would be the best terminal color configuration to use for the screenshots? - Any suggestions on what to show are welcome. I was going to use https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Quick-examples as a start. For now we'll have to stick to examples that work in the released version, until we can get 0.7.2 out. - Is there a better name than "screenshots" that we can use. I suppose if we are going to show actual screen shots, it will be OK, but right now it seems misplaced. Aaron Meurer -- 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.
