- From: address@hidden
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Responder: Re: TeXmacs Powered CAS documentation
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:34:26 -0500
Hi Joris,
I'm not suscribed to that list, can you please send me a copy of the
thread about this subject on that list?
Thanks,
Offray
----- Original Message -----
De: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
Fecha: Domingo, Junio 22, 2003 12:24 pm
Asunto: Re: TeXmacs Powered CAS documentation
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 address@hidden wrote:
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> I'm having a lot of free time in this vacation so I was plannig to
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> work on something wich I call TeXmacs powered CAS documentation.
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That would be a very valuable contribution.
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I will reply in more detail to your comments below soon;
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it would be good to have this discussion on the developers
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mailing list address@hidden
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Thanks for your efforts, Joris
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> The idea is to convert some info and HTML files of CAS (like
Maxima,
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> Yacas, etc) in TeXmacs documents. In this way, for example, when
you
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> invoke help in that systems inside TeXmacs you get an interactive
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> document wich explains the use of the system, but the code of
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the CAS
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> refered to some function or example is in fact a session of that
CAS
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> inside the TeXmacs powered doc. Something similar at the moment is
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> present in Maxima session where you can invoke the Manual, but
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it is
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> composed of HTML files, not files, the idea is convert them to to
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> bring them interactivity (for me the most appealing feature of
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> TeXmacs). The idea carries some questions, I hope you can help me:
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> * May be will be necesary to change some part of the
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documentation to
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> refer at the process inside TeXmacs, for example in the HTML
version
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> of the Maxima Manual you see that for calling Maxima you type
maxima
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> command at shell but you don't make this calling Maxima inside
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> TeXmacs, so a cosmetic change is required here. So do you know
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what is
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> the licence of the documentation for Maxima, Yacas, Octave, Scilab
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> (and similar CAS)?
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> * May be we can create some kind of info2html script (or use the
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> existing one) for showing info pages of CAS systems inside in a
new
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> buffer. In that way we can have a nice hipertextual document output
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> instead of the long plain text response that at this moment we get.
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> Most of time after consulting this help we delete it because
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invoking> help is not the purpose of the document that we are
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writing with the
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> CAS, so having the output of that help in a separate buffers
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makes a
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> lot of sense to me. At the same time it gives the user a sense of
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> consistency of the scientific writer, because if you want to browse
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> help nicely you dont have to go to shell for that. (Is the same
that
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> when you have the posibility to browse help files inside the
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konqueror> or nautilus file/internet browsers. The end user feels
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that is using a
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> integrate comprensive solution).
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> * Layers of document: At this moment we have some of this with the
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> idea of folding and unfolding. If we are making TeXmacs powered
docs
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> may be we dont wish to show the code that produce a figure for
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> example, but we only want to show that figure. May be we can put
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that> code in a diferent layer and fold it and "above" that we can
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put the
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> output. Most of CAS programs can produce is some way a postscript
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> output of figures and TeXmacs can render postscript fine, will
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be nice
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> to have a "macro" wich make this process more automatic
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(creating a
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> figure from CAS commands and insert/link it to a TeXmacs document).
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> The idea of Layers can be extended to put, for example, in a
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inferior> layer the data of a stadistic problem and above the R
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session wich
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> handles that data. The files can be inserted or linked (like with
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> images files at the moment) so the user have the posibility to
carry
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> in a simple document all the info he need to make his work.
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> I want to make some contribution in this vacation to CAS comunity
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> (specially using TeXmacs, the CAS glue ;-) ). I can help also with
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> localization to spanish for some doc, and I offered before to
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try to
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> make another Scheme interpreter work with TeXmacs, but I feel
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that the
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> TeXmacs powered doc can help to more people and is more suited
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to me.
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> Any advice or indication about where to start will be apreciated.
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> Cheers,
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> Offray
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