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[Peter Rapčan <address@hidden>]

Hi Tobia,

Could you please expand on how you wrapped TeXmacs in an application  
to be usable in the dock? Can this be done in a dynamical way, i.e.  
with no need to repeat the whole process after updating TeXmacs via  
fink? Is there a way to do the above in such a manner that one sees   
the direct output (say in a separate window) as you do when you run  
TeXmacs from Xterm?

Thanks,

Peter


On May 31, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Tobia wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm trying to set up TeXmacs as a user-friendly Maxima front-end on
> Mac OS X.
>
> I've successfully built SBCL, Maxima, and TeXmacs, using a combination
> of DarwinPorts and Fink, then I wrapped TeXmacs in an application
> bundle, so that it can be dragged to the dock and launched like any
> other Mac application.  (I can expand on these points if anybody is
> interested.)
>
> I had to modify texmacs-maxima-5.10.0.lisp to suppress some ugly
> STYLE-WARNINGs I was getting from SBCL: I just called fmakunbound on
> all the functions that were being redefined (main-prompt and tex-...)
>
> What's still left to do is to spawn a Maxima session automatically at
> startup and set a few options, but I fear I'm not proficient enough in
> TeXmacs's internals.
>
> I tried putting the following both in my-init-texmacs.scm and in
> my-init-buffer.scm:
>
>         (maxima-initialize)
>         (toggle-session-math-input)
>         (kbd-map in-math? ("(" (make-bracket-open "(" ")" #t)))
>         (kbd-map in-math? (")" (make-bracket-close ")" "(" #t)))
>
> but it seems either place is called too soon for what I'm trying to  
> do.
> Also the (maxima-initialize) call is wrong, because it doesn't work  
> from
> the interactive Scheme prompt, while the others do.
>
> I'd also like to suppress the "There are unsaved files. Really quit?"
> message: that is, silently quit without asking.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Tobia