[IPython-dev] IPython notebook rocks (and some new ideas)
Clyde Fare
clyde.fare at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 19:54:24 EST 2014
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
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> IPython-dev mailing list
> IPython-dev at scipy.org
> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/ipython-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/attachments/20140124/30dc85ce/attachment.html>
More information about the IPython-dev
mailing list