[IPython-dev] IPython notebook rocks (and some new ideas)

[Clyde Fare]

I found an addon to hide a notebook's input cells a while ago:

https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/adsy-python

It hides all of them rather than just just one particular but you might
find it useful.


On 22 January 2014 23:41, Ian Bell <ian.h.bell at gmail.com> wrote:

> First off, I just want to tell you how much I love the IPython notebooks.
> They are absolutely fantastic.  I'm a Python missionary and this helps me
> to share work that I am doing with non-python folks. I especially like how
> easy it is to integrate LaTeX into the notebook as the
> edit-compile-edit-compile cycles with LaTeX can be quite time consuming if
> you use the full LaTeX ecosystem.  And then we take several notebooks, use
> nbconvert, and *voila*, a beautiful document.  Brilliant.
>
> Two sample notebooks that I have put together:
> iPeng-Robinson-Soave EOS<http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ibell/coolprop/blob/master/Web/iPRSV.ipynb?create=1>
> Implementation of phase envelope for mixtures<http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ibell/coolprop/blob/master/Web/mixtures/phase_envelope.ipynb?create=1>
>
> I have a couple of modifications that I would love to see; I'm not sure
> how feasible they are:
>
>    - Cross-referencing.  I have a lot of equations (think tens to
>    hundreds) and several equations and tables and it is nice to be link to
>    other equations within one notebook, but ideally I would like to be able to
>    refer to equations/tables/figures in another notebook (that might be more
>    difficult I know)
>    - Hiding of the code blocks.  Generating figures sometimes requires a
>    lot of hacking around, and its nice to not have the hacking be completely
>    visible, but only after a click through.  Sort of how in Sphinx+MPL, there
>    is a link to download the source for the figure, but the source is not
>    automatically embedded.  If this is already possible, how can I enable it?
>    - Block folding/formatting.  For longer documents, the spacing for the
>    heading 1, heading 2, etc. blocks becomes quite significant, and it would
>    be nice if we could fold blocks within a heading.  Also, it would be nice
>    if we could have more condensed spacing for the headings, or at least,
>    heading 2 spacing much less than heading 1 spacing.
>
> I guess that's it for tonight's ideas.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Ian
>
>
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