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["Juan Pablo Romero Méndez" <address@hidden>]

Wow!

Amazing, thanks!

  Juan Pablo

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 4:43 AM, chu-ching huang
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>
>