Revisit layout of notebook area

[ellisonbg]

There are a couple of ways in which the current layout of the notebook is non-ideal and we need to revisit some of our design decisions:

Here is one link on this topic:

http://slendrmeans.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/better-typography-for-ipython-notebooks/

• The notebook area is too wide - we should probably limit it to something around 940px like most web pages. nbviewer already does this.
• Equations are currently left justified, while traditional mathematical typesetting uses centered equations. We should start out by adding some additional left margin to the equations to help them stand out against the surrounding text. B. Granger is still opposed to pure centering because of the large amount of left justified content in the notebook (input, output, images).
• The vertical spacing above and below heading cells is too much. This causes notebooks to take up too much vertical space. It should be reduced too much though.
• We should at least think about the question of serif versus sans serif fonts for text in the notebook.

[minrk]

My understanding (as described in the roadmap) is that we will look at this implementation after switching to bootstrap for layout. Is this still true?

[ellisonbg]

Yes, that is the plan...

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Min RK notifications@github.com wrote:

My understanding (as described in the roadmap) is that we will look at
this implementation after switched to bootstrap for layout. Is this
still true?

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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
bgranger@calpoly.edu and ellisonbg@gmail.com

[minrk]

I presume this should be bumped to 2.0?

[ellisonbg]

Yes.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Min RK notifications@github.com wrote:

I presume this should be bumped to 2.0?

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[ellisonbg]

This work is basically done. See also #4786