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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hi,

I included the TeXgraph plug-in for the next release.

HOWEVER, I have been unable to test it: the Linux binaries for
TeXgraph depend on shared libraries which are both missing on
the last releases of Fedora and Ubuntu. There is no version
for MacOS and compiling from source depends on the installation
of a Pascal compiler. Altogether, this will be a bottleneck for
many potential users.

Any feedback from other users would be appreciated.

Best wishes, Joris


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:12:11PM +0100, Corcelle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have made progress. A TeXgraph menu now opens when in TeXgraph session.
> In this menu :
> 1- you will find an almost exhaustive list of 2D and 3D commands. They 
> display the code for each object or construction, the only thing to do 
> is to change the parameters (points, variables...).
> 2- you will find an access to different kind of pdf help files given by 
> TeXgraph.
> 3- and you will be able to load macros (to create more complex 
> polyhedrons, to add drawing instruments to illustrate a construction...).
> 
> To see how it is, you can look at :
> Examples of figures made with TeXgraph : 
> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/246467/figures_texgraph.pdf
> Detailled TeXgraph menu : 
> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/246467/menu_session_texgraph.pdf
> 
> The plugin : http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/246467/texgraph.zip
> 
> 
> I only tested the plugin on ubuntu 8.10 / TeXmacs 1.0.7 / TeXgraph 
> 1.94-beta.
> 1- Everything works fine when TeXgraph is installed in the defaut folder 
> (/user/local/share/TeXgraph). When the user select another folder, 
> everything's ok except the link to the PDF documentation because in the 
> /progs/*-menu.scm files I don't know how to find the TEXGRAPH_PATH (if 
> someone knows).
> 2- I couldn't add a link to the html help (it work in TeXmacs 1.0.6.11 
> but not in 1.0.7).
> 
> For windows users, you will have to copy the texgraph.sty file in your 
> TEX arbrescence and update the base.
> Everything (except the help) should work but I am not sure becaus I 
> couldn't test it.
> 
> 
> Last thing, almost everything is in French because TeXgraph is a French 
> project and I read in the documentation that the localisation (lang 
> folder) isn't yet possible for plugins.
> 
> 
> Emmanuël
> 
> Joris van der Hoeven a écrit :
> >Hi Emmanuel,
> >
> >Sorry for my late reply and thanks for your work.
> >I am a bit busy, but will try your plug-in as soon as possible,
> >and hopefully include it in the next version of TeXmacs.
> >Please keep in touch with us if you make further enhancements.
> >
> >Best wishes, Joris
> >
> >On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:58:22PM +0100, Corcelle wrote:
> >  
> >>I just wrote a plugin for TeXgraph. This software makes it possible to 
> >>create graphs which will be used inside LaTeX (you can find this really 
> >>good software in French at http://texgraph.tuxfamily.org/index.html, if 
> >>you don't know it yet you really should have a look).
> >>I followed the documentation to create two files :
> >>- tm_texgraph based on tm_pstricks by Nicolas Ratier
> >>- init-texgraph.scm based on init-eukleides.scm by Joris van der Hoeven.
> >>To use it, you have to extract texgraph.tar.gz in the 
> >>"~/.TeXmacs/plugin" directory under linux and to install TeXgraph of 
> >>course.
> >>
> >>I have tested it under Ubuntu 8.10, TeXmacs 1.0.7 and TeXgraph 1.94 beta 
> >>7-2. Everything seems to work fine and is a really good complement to 
> >>Eukleides for plotting, 3d...
> >>But, as it is my first attempt to do something like this, there may be 
> >>errors and everythings probably not very clean. So your comments would 
> >>be very welcome.
> >>
> >>And as it is my first post on this forum, I would like to thank you for 
> >>this great software. Learning it, I had the same feeling as I had 
> >>learning gnu-linux. A little time to get in and then the efficiency of a 
> >>really powerful and easy to use software.
> >>
> >>Bye.
> >>
> >>Emmanuël Corcelle
> >>
> >>