- From: Robert Jerrard <address@hidden>
- To: Giorgio Tombola <address@hidden>
- Cc: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs as Maxima interface
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:49:29 -0600
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 18:38 +0000, Giorgio Tombola wrote:
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Searching for a valid alternative to Mathcad I found Maxima that seems
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powerful and complete. But one of the first problem is writing and
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checking formulas. The way Maxima use is very different from "hand
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writing" and the learning become more difficult, mainly for the
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beginner like me. When I found TeXmacs could works as interface I was
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very happy and I tried immediately but unfortunately it don't works.
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To use TeXmacs as interface for Maxima I follow Hoven's guide chapter
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6
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1) in TeXmacs menu I choose Insert -> Session -> Maxima -> 5.14.0 gcl
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2) in few second the prompt Maxima appears
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but if I wrote a simple formula (see image attached) and press Enter
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then TeXmacs locks. The only thing I can do is kill the process.
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Note that if run Maxima before opening TeXmacs nothing change.
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I'm using Mandriva Linux 2008.1, Maxima 5.14.0, TeXmacs 1.0.6.12. If
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you could give any hint it would be very appreciated.
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Sincerely
Hi Giorgio, typically you need to change two files:
maxima_detect and tm_maxima
In a debian system they are in
/usr/lib/texmacs/TeXmacs/bin
In the maxima_detect file you need to change the line like
if $MAXIMA --list-avail | grep -F "version 5.9.1
version 5.9.2
version 5.9.3
version 5.10
version 5.11
version 5.12" >/dev/null
to something like
if $MAXIMA --list-avail | grep -F "version 5.9.1
version 5.9.2
version 5.9.3
version 5.10
version 5.11
version 5.12
version 5.13
version 5.14" >/dev/null
In the tm_maxima file you need to change the line like
5.11.* | 5.12.*) exec maxima -u $1 -l $2 -p
"$TEXMACS_MAXIMA_PATH/texmacs-maxima-5.11.0.lisp";;
to something like
5.11.* | 5.12.* | 5.13.* | 5.14.*) exec maxima -u $1 -l $2 -p
"$TEXMACS_MAXIMA_PATH/texmacs-maxima-5.11.0.lisp";;
Good luck, Bob
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Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics,
Concordia University College of Alberta,
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