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[Christian EVEN <address@hidden>]

Le Mercredi 10 Septembre 2003 03:09, Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello 
a 
écrit :
> Hi ,
>
> Assuming its possible to support maple as a interactive session, now the
> question would be; supposing someone wanted to add this support, what steps
> should do that person? :)
>
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Hi,

        I have built two different versions of an interface which allows 
maple 
sessions under TeXmacs under LINUX/Unix. 

        The first only works if maple can run with the option -l l in a shell 
:
it  evaluates maple input that are beetween flags like
\begin{mapleinput}
1+1;
\end{mapleinput}

It is then possible to make help or plot commands. This interface is quite 
O.K,  but difficult to improve and unfornately does'nt work with the latest 
version of maple, because this required -l l option produces a bug with 
C-libraries.

        The other should works quite correctly a priori with any version of 
maple, 
but there is still some little bugs, for example with the help command, and I 
have not yet implemented the possibility to produces plots. I hope my other 
activities will let me soon some time to perfect it and make it more 
satisfactory (I wouldn't refuse any help to do it). Nevertheless I use it 
currently for my mathematical computations. 

        The both interfaces are more or less fragile and rather difficult to 
perfect  
because they are based on tricks to go round the fact that the source code of 
the printing procedure of Maple is not available;  despite the mails that 
Joris and me sent to the maple team to obtain it : they don't seem even to 
consider it merits an answer.

        If you are interested to get my interfaces,  tell me  and I will take 
care. 
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Christian EVEN