Hello, On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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,
Besides what you have already mentioned, I guess screenshots of SymPy showing some plots would be totally welcome. > - 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. I think using actual screenshots is a good idea. > - What would be the best terminal color configuration to use for the > screenshots? I'd vote for black text on white background, because that will fit naturally into the web page. > - 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. I think that's a very nice list of examples, but I'd like to see some plotting as well. 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.
