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["Javier Arantegui Jimenez" <address@hidden>]

Hi,

> It should be noted that the possibility of generating TeXmacs
> graphics using a program remains an option. In such a case,
> the sine function of your example file would directly be
> approximated in the graphics as an interpolated spline.

How can I do that? I didn't know it was possible.

> For drawing a sine, the feature already exists (I suppose
> you made the draw with GnuPlot, isn't it ?), so there is
> no need do implement it again in another way.

I used GnuPlot indirectly. I plotted the sinus function using Inset ->
Image -> Plot -> Curve. TeXmacs uses GnuPlot to plot the curve.


> But for new applications, directly generating TeXmacs graphics
> could be an interesting option, because on the one hand,
> the corresponding TeXmacs document could be lighter, and
> on the other hand, you remove a computation layer (namely,
> the layer GnuPlot->Postscript) ; depending on what you want
> to do, you could also probably obtain a better control on
> what you generate.

That would be amazing.

> For an example of drawings graphics using
> a program, you can have a look at the end of my tutorial :
> <<
>    http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~henri/texmacs/aTeXmacsGraphicsTutorial.pdf
>    http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~henri/texmacs/ (for some other material)

The Apendix B example is amazing. But, Scheme programming is far out of my
knowledge :-(  Anyway it shows the potential of the graphics mode.

Javier