[IPython-dev] fancyboxes in IPython Notebooks

[Matthias Kümmerer]

Hi,

sorry for the long delay.

> We should probably have an event that fires after the markdown cell is
> rendered that third party extensions can handle for things like this.
okay. If I have seen correctly, this event is not yet there? Can I help to 
implement it in some way?

Best,
  Matthias

> 
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Matthias Kümmerer
> 
> <matthias at matthias-k.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am a PhD student in computational neuroscience and I am using IPython
> > Notebooks besides data analysis etc. for keeping my lab journal, where I
> > document my results. For that, I save the figures that I want to have in
> > the lab journal in a subfolder and include them in the notebook using
> > markdown (actually I wrote a small library some to automate this process.
> > It is still very alpha, but very useful for me [1]).
> > 
> > For the lab journal, I would prefer to have my plots only as small
> > pictures
> > included to make scrolling trough the notebook easier. But of course at
> > some point I may need the actual plot in full resolution. Thus I thought
> > it would be great, if there is an easy way to make the images clickable
> > with the full size image appearing after an click, e.g. using jquery
> > fancybox (see [2] or [3] for an older version). Basically this is very
> > easy to use, but I am not sure how I could make it usable in the
> > notebook. The easiest way would be just to include fancybox somehow and
> > write the html-code in the markdown cells for the href:
> > 
> > <a class="fancybox" rel="group" href="big_image_1.jpg"><img
> > src="small_image_1.jpg" alt="" /></a>
> > 
> > but then still some javascript code has to deal with creating the fancy
> > box. It would probably be more elegant to have some kind of extension in
> > the IPython Notebook that deals with this automatically and converts
> > markdown images in fancy box links.
> > 
> > I would be very interested in this feature and I am definitely willing to
> > invest some time on this if you could give me some hints how this could be
> > plugged into IPython Notebook best.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help and the work on IPython!
> > Best,
> > 
> >   Matthias
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/matthias-k/ipython-journal
> > [2] http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/
> > [3] http://fancybox.net/
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