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[Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos <address@hidden>]

Where can I find info on TeXmacs trees data structure?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 10:07, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2004, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote:
> > I've developed in Scheme a CAS package somewhat nice for personal use.
> > I'd like to try to make it interact with TeXMacs, what should I read in
> > order to know what my CAS needs to do so that TeXMacs accepts it as a
> > TeXMacs compliant CAS?
> 
> That depends on what you do. The integration of Scheme packages into
> TeXmacs should be easy, because TeXmacs also uses Scheme as its extension
> language. I imagine that, at a first stage, you would like to output and
> input formulas in a nice way. The first thing you may therefore wish to
> do is to write a routine which transforms data objects from your system
> into TeXmacs trees. We may next try to adapt the Scheme sessions so as
> to make it possible to display the results (for instance, by displaying
> tree results as trees; I will have to think a bit about this, because
> we have only used pipe-connections so far). In any case, I recommend to
> read the documentation on the TeXmacs data format and on plug-ins.
> By the way, do you use a CLOS-like system?
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