Hi David, Sorry for not responding to your mail last month - trying to go over 1 month backlog :(
First look you plugin looks quite good, so might be a good candidate to include, but will need to spend some more time consolidating stuff before I get to integrating new plugins I'm afraid. In the meantime, don't hesitate to publish it here: https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Plugins The zim plugins dialog links to that page. Regards, Jaap On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:39 PM, David Nolden < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jaap and others. > > I use zim for all my note-taking, planning, etc., and I also want to > be able to do complex calculations right within zim, instead of doing > them somewhere else and copying in the result. Therefore, I first took > a look at the 'arithmetic' plugin, which is definitely going into the > right direction, but it's very limited and has some bugs. I think that > it doesn't make sense to maintain an own arithmetic syntax and parser > etc. when we have a perfect solution available: python itself. I > usually use python anyway to do all kinds of calculations. Therefore I > created the attached plugin, which allows using python directly within > zim, not only for arithmetic calculations but for any kind of > calculations. I'm using this as a kind of Excel replacement. It's also > a great replacement for the python CLI instance which I used to have > open all the times for quick calculations. > > Obviously, it's potentially dangerous to execute python code from the > zim notebook. Therefore this should only be used with own and > trustworthy notebooks. On each zim wiki page, when executing the > embedded python code for the first time, a popup will be shown which > shows the exact embedded code that the plugin collected from the page > and that will be executed, and the user has a chance to review the > code and eventually abort execution. Python code is embedded using the > '#' sign. For further information, please see the manual page I wrote. > > For example, of you want to calculate how many dollars you can make > out of 500 dollars in 10 years with interest rates of 5%, you could do > it like this: > #dollars = 500; interest = 1.05; years = 10 > #dollars_after_10_years = dollars * (interest ** years) > #dollars_after_10_years > -> press F5, and get: > #dollars_after_10_years ? 814.447313389 > > I'd be happy if this plugin would be included in Zim in future, > there's nothing similarly powerful available yet. I'm willing to keep > maintaining it. Any feedback and discussion is welcome. > > Greetings, David > > ps. I already sent an older version of the plugin to Jaap, this is an > improved version. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
_______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
