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["chu-ching huang" <address@hidden>]

Hi all,

I has used TeXmacs for a long time and use it to make many notes about math
and CAS. Now most of the notes are collected together as a file.
  
The content includes a mini math lecture about calculus (for management
students) and a appendix for the CAS demo for introducing Axiom, Maxima and
octave etc.

Both the files, in tm (about 10mb) and pdf (about 2mb) formats, are put on the
following:

    http://math1.cgu.edu.tw:2006/class/management/951/calculus.tm 
                                                     /calculus.pdf
Please feel free to download.

By the way, I also try to install winTexmacs and use CAS plugins directly. The
      
      rem Uncomment line below and set required value to MAXIMA_LANG_SUBDIR 
      rem to get localized describe in command line Maxima
      rem set MAXIMA_LANG_SUBDIR="es"

      set lisp=gcl
      set version=5.9.3
      set prefix=c:/maxima
      set maxima_prefix=C:\ROGRA~1\maxima
      set package=maxima
      set verbose=false
      set path=%maxima_prefix%\bin;%path%

      if "%USERPROFILE%" == "" goto win9x
      if "%MAXIMA_USERDIR%" == "" set MAXIMA_USERDIR=%USERPROFILE%\maxima
      if "%MAXIMA_TEMPDIR%" == "" set MAXIMA_TEMPDIR=%USERPROFILE%
      goto startparseargs
      :win9x
      if "%MAXIMA_USERDIR%" == "" set MAXIMA_USERDIR=%maxima_prefix%\user
      if "%MAXIMA_TEMPDIR%" == "" set MAXIMA_TEMPDIR=%maxima_prefix%

      :startparseargs
      if "%1" == "-l" goto foundlisp
      if "%1" == "--lisp" goto foundlisp
      if "%1" == "-u" goto foundversion
      if "%1" == "--use-version" goto foundversion
      if "%1" == "-v" goto foundverbose
      if "%1" == "--verbose" goto foundverbose

      :continueparseargs
      shift
      if not "%1" == "" goto startparseargs
      goto endparseargs

      :foundlisp
      set lisp=%2
      shift
      goto continueparseargs

      :foundversion
      set version=%2
      shift
      goto continueparseargs

      :foundverbose
      set verbose=true
      goto continueparseargs

      :endparseargs

      if "%MAXIMA_LAYOUT_AUTOTOOLS%" == "" goto defaultlayout
      set layout_autotools=true
      goto endlayout

      :defaultlayout
      set layout_autotools=true

      :endlayout

      if "%MAXIMA_PREFIX%" == "" goto defaultvars
      if "%layout_autotools%" == "true" goto maxim_autotools
      set maxima_imagesdir=%MAXIMA_PREFIX%\src
      goto endsetupvars

      :maxim_autotools
      set maxima_imagesdir=%MAXIMA_PREFIX%\lib\%package%\%version%
      goto endsetupvars

      :defaultvars
      if "%layout_autotools%" == "true" goto defmaxim_autotools
      set maxima_imagesdir=%prefix%\src
      goto endsetupvars

      :defmaxim_autotools
      set maxima_imagesdir=%prefix%\lib\%package%\%version%
      goto endsetupvars

      :endsetupvars

      set maxima_image_base=%maxima_imagesdir%\binary-%lisp%\maxima

      if "%verbose%" == "true" @echo on
      if "%lisp%" == "gcl" goto dogcl
      if "%lisp%" == "clisp" goto doclisp

      @echo "maxima error: lisp %lisp% not known."
      goto end

      :dogcl
      %maxima_imagesdir%\binary-gcl\maxima.exe -eval "(cl-user::run)" -f --  
  "%arg1%" "%arg2%" "%arg3%" "%arg4%" "%arg5%" "%arg6%" "%arg7%" "%arg8%" 
"%arg9%"
       goto end

      :doclisp
      if "%layout_autotools%" == "true" goto clisp_autotools
      clisp -q -M %maxima_image_base%.mem "" -- "%arg1%" "%arg2%" "%arg3%"  
"%arg4%" "%arg5%" "%arg6%" "%arg7%" "%arg8%" "%arg9%"
      goto end

      :clisp_autotools
      %maxima_imagesdir%\binary-clisp\lisp.exe -q -M %maxima_image_base%.mem
"" -- "%arg1%" "%arg2%" "%arg3%" "%arg4%" "%arg5%" "%arg6%" "%arg7%" "%arg8%"
"%arg9%"
      goto end

      :end
 
c) Modification for octave
   i) modify "init-octave.scm" in "C:\Program
Files\wintexmacs\plugins\maxima\progs"
           ...
           (plugin-configure octave
           (:require (url-exists-in-path? "tm-start-octave.bat"))
           (:initialize (octave-initialize))
           (:launch "tm-start-octave.bat")
           (:session "Octave"))
   
   ii) add new file "tm-start-octave.bat"in "C:\Program Files\octave\bin"
           @echo off
           C:\PROGRA~1\octave\bin\bash.exe -e /bin/octave.sh
       bash.exe and related dll files can be copied from "Gnuplot for 
windows".
   
   iii) add new file "octave.sh"in "C:\Program Files\octave\bin"
           #!/bin/sh
           # This script is executed under sh.exe to start octave
           export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:
           export HOME="/octave_files"
           export PS_VIEWER=""
           export EDITOR="nodepad.exe"
           cd "$HOME"
           octave.exe -i tm-start.oct
           rm -f /tmp/*
        create the new directory as "C:\Program Files\octave\octave_files" if
not exists.
        
d) add the plugins into the file, "pluginpaths.txt" in C:\Documents and
settings\"YOUR USER FOLDER"\.TeXmacs\plugins" as the follows:
        C:\Program Files\maxima\bin
        C:\Program Files\octave\bin

By the way, another CAS "Axiom" can be used well in winTeXmacs without any
modification.


Best regrads,

chu-ching huang