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

Hi all,

This is a memo for installing TeXmacs on EeePC.

HTML source from: http://diffusion.cgu.edu.tw:8080/TeXmacs/EeePC 

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Memo for remastering EeePC as mobile system with CAS

For the purpose to set up a compact system with CAS environment in Eee PC, I
directly installed software via "synaptic" since the PC uses Xandos Linux with
 2.6.22 kernel. Almost after one hour trying, a compact CAS on Eee PC was
created. 

Google from web about EeePC information:  "etch" is the best one for system
upgrading. Another reason for choosing upgrading system  but not reinstalling
another Linux is that EeePC uses several new hardwares , webcam, network and
wifi chipsets etc, that can not be autodetected by other linux system even
Ubuntu-7.10.


1. Open "synaptic"

    add http://http.us.debian.org/debian   etch  main non-free contrib
 
2. Add packages by synaptic:
    gcc-4.2.1, g++-4.1.2, make, guile, texmacs-1.0.6 ( later removed ),
maxima, gnuplot, gcl, octave, libfreetype,
    python: idle, visual, pygame, matplotlib, simpy, scipy-0,5,2,
boa-construct. (python-2.4 in the system)
    bluefish, gimp-2.2
  
   I don't know the reason why: as gcl was installed, it can not work but
works after reboot PC.
 
3. install from source:
    texmacs-1.0.6.12
    lampp-1.6
    imathas with data

   The last two is used to test our math quiz bank.  "make STATIC_TEXMACS"  
failed in istallation, "make" replaced.

4. Add application icon in "toolbar":
  a) 5 pictures needed: program.png, accessibility_program_hi.png,
bussiness_program_hi.png, home_program_hi.png,
      student_program_hi.png
  
 b) modify /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/simpleui.rc:

<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/path/to/program"
icon="program.png"
selected_icon="program_hi.png" >
<name lang="en">program name</name>
<name lang="zh_TW">program name</name>
</parcel>

Download the official TeXmacs logo, made 5 icons and modified simpleui.rc as
above. Here is the  picture captured:
http://diffusion.cgu.edu.tw:8080/TeXmacs/EeePC/texmacs1.jpg

5. Caption:
   
   a)  A TeXmacs working sheet: 
http://diffusion.cgu.edu.tw:8080/TeXmacs/EeePC/texmacs2.jpg
       
        Defaulted display of the system is 800x480, it makes TeXmacs working
more smoothly.
        Question: Why can we not make a label with math symbol as picture
shown? for example: \sigma algebra fails,
   b)  maxima(-5.10.0, etch) plugin:   
          http://diffusion.cgu.edu.tw:8080/TeXmacs/EeePC/texmacs3.jpg

After installed, there are still about 500mb space left. It is not too hard to
enlarge the space, for example: cheap SD, MMC are worthing cost.

Question about TeXmacs: If the book style is used, why does the index begin
from the preface but not from the content of body, for example: indexing from
chapter 1?

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Best regards,

cch