mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Giorgio Tombola <address@hidden>]

Searching for a valid alternative to Mathcad I found Maxima that seems powerful and complete. But one of the first problem is writing and checking formulas. The way Maxima use is very different from "hand writing" and the learning become more difficult, mainly for the beginner like me.  When I found TeXmacs could works as interface I was  very happy and I tried immediately but unfortunately it don't works.

To use TeXmacs as interface for Maxima I follow Hoven's guide chapter 6
1) in TeXmacs menu I choose Insert -> Session -> Maxima -> 5.14.0 gcl
2) in few second the prompt Maxima appears
but if I wrote a simple formula (see image attached) and press Enter then TeXmacs locks. The only thing I can do is kill the process.
Note that if run Maxima before opening TeXmacs nothing change.

I'm using Mandriva Linux 2008.1, Maxima 5.14.0, TeXmacs 1.0.6.12. If you could give any hint it would be very appreciated.
Sincerely

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