- From: Youjun Hu <address@hidden>
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- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs Mathematica plugin HowTo
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:14:04 -0500
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Thanks,
This is a very useful howto post giving all the detials to make
Texmacs-Mathematica plugin work.
Youjun
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Philippe Joyez
<address@hidden> wrote:
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How to run the TeXmacs Mathematica plugin - For Mathematica version 7 on
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linux.
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Probably valid for v.6 also, and maybe other OSs too.
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In order to connect to Mathematica TeXmacs needs an executable
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"tm_mathematica.bin" in the hidden user's ".TeXmacs/bin/" directory. This
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executable is normally compiled on the fly the first time a Mathematica
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session
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is opened, however the "makefile.lazy" that control this process makes
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assumptions on filepaths that are obsolete for current versions of
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mathematica.
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Fixing make.lazy in general means to make it smart enough to handle all
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possible cases of OS/mathematica version, which is nor easy. On the other
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hand,
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if the user is able to provide the appropriate file paths on its own, the
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simple following script (partly based on
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http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6079#comment2) does the jobs:
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#! /bin/bash
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#first define paths
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#here we use the texmacs installed files, but can also be the downloaded
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source
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Texmacs_math_plugin_files=/usr/local/share/TeXmacs/plugins/mathematica
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#Mathematica files from your installation
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Mathlink_Path="/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/7.0/SystemFiles/Links/MathLink/De
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veloperKit/Linux-x86-64/CompilerAdditions"
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#above, replace "Linux-x86-64" to suit your system.
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#In this directory we'll use the header mathlink.h and a shared library
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libMLxxx.so where xxx depends on the architecture
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#for me, the library is "libML64i3.so" :
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lib_name=libML64i3.so
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#for Linux, normally no editting needed below this line
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Texmacs_home=$HOME"/.TeXmacs"
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lib_option=${lib_name:3:${#lib_name}-6} #strip "lib" and ".so"
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#make the dynamic library accessible at runtime in the usual system library
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path (needs admin rights):
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sudo ln -s $Mathlink_Path/$lib_name /usr/lib/$lib_name
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#make temporary writable copy of souce and use as working directory:
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cp -rf $Texmacs_math_plugin_files/src.lazy /tmp/mathem
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cd /tmp/mathem
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#copy necessary header
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cp $Mathlink_Path/mathlink.h mathlink.h
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#compile
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gcc -o tm_mathematica.bin tm_mathematica.c -l$lib_option -lm -lpthread -lrt
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#finally install executable
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cp tm_mathematica.bin $Texmacs_home/bin/tm_mathematica.bin
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save it as a text file, adapt as needed for your system, make it executable
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and
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run it (or execute line by line to check the process). The compilation
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issues
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many warnings, but it's OK.
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Now you can start a Mathematica session from within Texmacs, either using
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the
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"insert session" submenu or running a scheme command : (make-session
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"mathematica" "default")
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Final note: in recent mathematica versions the default graphics output is
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not
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postscript anymore, which is what TeXmacs needs. However you can correct the
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problem easily by evaluating (once per mathematica session):
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Get["Version5`Graphics`"]
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Hope it helps,
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Philippe
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