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["Adrian S." <address@hidden>]

I just wanted to share my experiences compiling TeXmacs in Ubuntu 13.10.

For installation in Ubuntu 13.10, I was not sure what to install, so I
followed the dependencies in the package texmacs-src (which is for
1.0.18), which are:

autotools-dev
cdbs (>= 0.4)
debhelper (>= 7.0)
ghostscript
guile-1.8-dev
imagemagick
ispell
libfreetype6-dev
libimlib2-dev
libjpeg-progs
libltdl-dev
libqt4-dev
librsvg2-bin
libtiff-tools
libx11-dev
libxt-dev
netpbm
quilt
r-base-core (>= 2.0)
x11proto-core-dev
xfig

From these, I think r-base-core and xfig are not really needed. The
packages listed ones allow it to compile, however:

The configure script found guile2, and tried to compile against it.
Aparently TeXmacs does not work with guile2, and needs guile1.8...
After putting guile1.8 and guile1.8-dev, all compiled nicely.

Then the newer version of ubuntu uses Maxima 5.30, which is
incompatible with TeXmacs.  Previous versions of Maxima work just
fine.

A long time ago, I had asked a problem regarding the menu created when
one starts a Maxima session. What is supposed to happen is that when
one starts a Maxima session, one should see a new entry en the top
menu saying "Maxima" and inside of which there are several options
about operations that can be performed inside the session. Compiling
the X version of texmacs (with the --disable-qt option) works just
fine. However, the compiled Qt version of texmacs does not create the
new menu.  At first I thought that this was TeXmacs fault, but then I
notice that the binary qt version in Windows does create the menu.
After a bit of digging, I realized that this is a Unity problem in
Ubuntu. The problem is solved by removing the package
"indicator-appmenu" in Ubuntu.

This removes the Apple-like "global menu", which is common for all
applications. This method is probably not the best way to do it,
because if affects all applications; but is the only workaround that I
have found (Other tricks like using "UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 texmacs", or
using "APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1 texmacs" did not work)

The package sage still uses a modified version of the Python plugin
that has several problems, but is now able to plot graphics, which was
missing for a while.

The new version of sage also shows some annoying symbols due to using
unicode , but it is a somewhat minor, though annoying, problem. I will
take a look to see if there is an easy fix to at least that. I
suggested a version of the sage plugin, but was not included.

I must say that the SVN version is impressive, and the improvements
done for the beamer style, and for the exportation of documents with
the beamer style to PDF  are extraordinary.

I am very happy with TeXmacs. I appreciate all the terrific work that
is being done.

I wonder if there is some work in the Mathemagix plugin, to see a bit
what we should aim to regarding writing plugins.

Hope this notes are useful to someone else.

Peace.
-Adrián.