Hi all,
Abdulhaq Lynch escribió:
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>I would be very interested to hear what method of presentation people prefer.
>I haven't seen Mathematica in action but I hear that it uses a notebook
>metaphor. While I understand that this is beneficial for presenting work, is
>it the best thing for day-to-day usage?
>
This depend on wich is your day to day usage. I think that in general if
you're writing documents instead of doing calculations the notebook
interface is better over the "calculator" interface. Your abstractions
in the MCV are interesting and if Kayaly can provide this kind of
abstraction it will be a worth project by itseft (for example replacing
the toolkit from qt to gtk o wxpython would be usefull for Window users).
>Currently Kayali is using a very
>simple ordered data list, which can contain any visual element (a formatted
>equation, graph, numerical answers et al.).
>
>My current thinking is that for a notebook presentation I would use an
>external compositing software such as KWord for example (and I know it has
>its problems), and Kayali would provide the rendered data (equation
>visualisation, plot png etc) for equations, graphs etc embedded in the KWord
>document.
>
>
Thats fine start for KDE components. What have you thought about other
interchangeable parts of the model in this components (for example
TeXmacs notebooks as a interface now available for Windows and Unix).
Note that TeXmacs can embeded Python sesions and you can for example use
PyX inside this python sesions. Could Kayali work in a similar fashion
as an embeded python "development" inside TeXmacs for Maxima sesions
manipulation?
Cheers,
Offray