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

The problem with the syncing of the menu between

To have Maxima 5.29 in Ubuntu 13.10, one simply needs to uninstall the
packages for 5.30, and use the .deb packages for the previous
versions. They can be found in http://packages.ubuntu.com/
For convenience, I put them in the following link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jurrg8dskh07nzx/znncOtU5Dn

This can be useful while the plugin is updated.

The syncing problem due to an indicator-appmenu bug is stated in the link

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/775561

though it seems to have very low priority there.

The bindings are strange, though that is fixed by selecting "gnome
bindings". I do not know why this happened.

In windows (xp via virtual machine) I noticed a strange behaviour in
math mode:  alt-s should produce a square root, but it produces an
"s". If one clicks in the square root icon in the menu, then,
afterwards, alt-s does produce a square root.

Peace.
-Adrián.



On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Henri Girard <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for this notes. I am on ubuntu 13.04 (to keep maxima working) and
> 14.04 to see what we will be getting in future.
> I have to compile texmacs because I want the new embedded pic in sagemath, I
> do apt-get build-dep texmacs with svn version; up to now every thing works
> ok.
> sagemath-5.12 has the anoying symbols, specially with matrix we don't get
> brakets anymore but a text advert like this is a graphic ?
> True texmacs is very great, people like me who don't know tex it's magic !!!
> lol
> Thanks again,
> regards
> Henri
> Le 02/11/2013 04:56, Adrian S. a écrit :
>
>> 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.
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