On Jun 20, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Sergiu Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Perhaps we should hold off on showing plotting until we release 0.7.2, which will contain the new plotting module. Otherwise, I totally agree with you. 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.
