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["El.Douwen" <address@hidden>]

>> now two questions :
>> - if i type 1+1 then press return (or shift return or page break or others 
>> combinations) nothing occurs
> Great! Now you have it working. Just type
> 1+1;
> and then <return> (don't forget ; at the end of each maxima command).
> 
> So, it seems, the script which is called "maxima" in Linux has the name 
> "maxima.sh" in MacOS.
> 
well had'nt this script for name 
"/Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources/maxima.sh" ?
because if i type "maxima.sh" alone it gives nothing… 

>> - where do i tell texmacs that the path for maxima is 
>> /Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources/maxima.sh
> 
> It would be easier to make a symlink to it called just "maxima" in some 
> directory in your $PATH. After that, typing just
> maxima
> in a terminal window will start 
> /Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources/maxima.sh.

i am very interested with this; if i do this, will texmacs find maxima 
without the necessity of editing the following files ?
second question : could please anyone take a cuple of minuts to explain me 
what the $PATH is ?
maybe what you call $PATH is the folder ~, that is to say the home folder in 
max os X ?
in mac os X 's Finder i have juste created an alias of "maxima.sh" as you 
said, and i have put it in the ~ folder
i have renamed it "maxima" 
then if i type "maxima" in the terminal nothing occurs
if i drag and drop this file to the terminal window i obtain a command with 
name /Users/[my name]/maxima
and the answer is : permission denied

> Of course, alternatively, you can edit a few files in your TeXmacs 
> installation. In Linus, they are
> /usr/share/TeXmacs/plugins/maxima/progs/init-maxima.scm
> /usr/libexec/TeXmacs/bin/tm_maxima
> /usr/libexec/TeXmacs/bin/maxima_detect
> (don't know where MacOS folks have put them to).
> 
i looked in the Finder (search by names) for files or folders with names 
"init-maxima" and also "tm_maxima" and also "maxima_detect"
i found nothing

>> - more generally, what is the method to install a texmacs extension, like 
>> the ones in the list you gave ?
> They are not TeXmacs extensions! They are separate programs, some of them 
> surely larger than TeXmacs, and all of them can be installed and used 
> without TeXmacs. But TeXmacs can interact with them, if they are installed. 
> And this is very useful, because you can easily cut-and-paste results from 
> one computer algebra system to another one, etc., within TeXmacs.
> 
ok sorry for the bad terminology; there are no texmacs extensions, there are 
great programms that can interact with texmacs and be commanded from inside 
texmacs documents

> Your choice of just 3 programs to which TeXmacs can interface seems a bit 
> random. For example, reduce and axiom (and its forks fricas and openaxiom) 
> are as powerful computer algebra systems as maxima; octave and scilab are 
> powerful matlab-like programs for numerical linear algebra; GNU R is the 
> leading program for statistical analyses; etc. All of them, and more, can 
> be used from within TeXmacs.

but that"s not a choice !
i could not yet install once of these great programms and interact them with 
texmacs !
so i have not tried them yet and not made any choice !
i am just argumenting, in order to explain what i want, from what i know
the day i can use hundred of programms within texmacs, i will test these 
hundred of programms, one by one

> Andrey

Sacha