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[Marc Lalaude-Labayle <address@hidden>]

Hi,

how did you tweak your pstricks plugin to let it work ?

Marc

Le samedi 15 novembre 2008 à 14:27 +0100, Martial Tarizzo a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a basic user of TeXmacs too (physics teacher...)
> 
> In a previous message, chu-ching huang send to the list the link 
> http://diffusion.cgu.edu.tw/ftp/Texmacs
> to download tm_pstrick.tgz
> 
> Unfortunately, the plugin didn't work, at least for me...(Linux, Ubuntu
> 8.04.1 LTS)
> 
> I modified it, and now it (nearly) works, at least for me !
> 
> You will find in tm_pstricks.zip
> -  a zip file, containing the plugin.
>    Extract the pstrick_plugin.zip to $HOME/.TeXmacs/plugins
> -  tstpst.pdf : what can be done
> -  tstpst.tm : the tm file to make the pdf
> 
> Regards
> 
> MT
> 
> ps : there are still some tricky points in the 'bin' part of the plugin,
> because it is a shell script. Using an higher level language (perl,
> python, ...) can certainly eliminate most of them 
> 
> 
> Le vendredi 14 novembre 2008 à 18:33 -0800, JC Bustamante a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm a "basic user" if texmacs. I really like this program although I'm
> > not still able to do everything I would like to. I still need to use
> > the good old LaTeX sometimes, and Lyx less frequently. I'm a
> > mathematician, teacher at a university in Ecuador. I try to encourage
> > my students to use open source programs, and, ouf course, TeXmacs is
> > one of my favourites. My computer-science skills are not great, when
> > come the time to "compile" programs, things go bad for me. Some one
> > compiled a recent version of TeXmacs for me, but he did it in the
> > wrong place, so I can't use the maxima interface, for instance. I use
> > Ubuntu 8.04, and I know that the versions in the repositories are too
> > old... I posted at the Ubuntu forums complaining about that, but I
> > can't do better... sorry! I find the download page's instructions
> > helpless, I'm simply not qualified to use that information. I
> > frequently post (answering or asking) to many other forums, but I find
> > that this one is the most "by-geeks-for-geeks" I've encountered. 
> > Some simple issues, at least I think they are simple, that keep me
> > using LyX or LaTeX form time to time are:
> > 
> > pstricks. I've posted before, without any sucess. The answer I've got
> > was not helpfull, for it was addressed to someone with much higher
> > computer science skills that mine. I thank the guy who wrote to me,
> > but, sorry, it wasn't helpfull.
> > 
> > xymatrix. Same thing.
> > 
> > Defining shortucts/commands. I kow there is something about that in
> > the manuals, but again... Have someone thought about making a "basic
> > Texmacs for LaTeX users guide"?
> > 
> > On the other hand, I could help in the translation to spanish. There
> > are still some parts of the manual which are in English.
> > 
> > As I said before, I really like this program, I would like to help
> > getting more people using it, but it's hard to do...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > JC
> > 
> >