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

Also, a feature I need badly and that TeXmacs has in the documentation
is to have the result of a computation in a numeric spreadsheet be in
another numeric spreasheet or in the text.

I vaguely remember that if the ref for a spreadsheet was "foo", then
to refer to the cell "a1" in "foo", it is "foo-a1"; but that does not
work when I type =foo-a1, since Maxima things of something different.
I think in Albufeira they mentioned how, but I cannot remember.

Help?

Peace.
-Adrian.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Adrian S. <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I am currently teaching a course in a High School and there are
> certain things that some online softwere does that I think TeXmacs can
> do better.  Most of my colleages use either Windows or a Mac, and all
> of my students have either a cellphone with either android or iOs.
>
> 1.- STEP BY STEP SOLUTIONS
> One of the things that people request a lot is a software that does a
> step by step solution to a problem.
>
> Using TeXmacs numeric spreadsheets and Maxima, I can do the step by
> step solutions for some problems; but I face the following problem:
>
> *I do not know how to have the TeXmacs plugin for Maxima display
> explicitly the multiplication.  It outputs "2 3"; but what I want my
> students to see is $2 \cdot 3$ or 2*3
>
> 2.-EXPORTING SELECTIONS TO IMAGES
> Most colleagues do a quite long procedure to have some math exported
> to image so that they can later put it in on line quiz activities like
> Kahoot or Socrative.
>
> This is already an easy option in TeXmacs, but
>
> *I have not been able to export selection to image or copy to image in
> Windows.  Has anybody succeeded in having exporting to image in
> Windows? Does it work in a Mac?
>
>  I have installed image magick and Gostscript, but I am not sure if I
> am missing something.
>
> 2.-PERFORMING SIMPLIFICATIONS OF EXPRESSIONS.
>
> This TeXmacs can do already, but it does not perform multiplications.
>
> *I would like to have esc+return inside of a math environment to
> perform the command in Maxima  "expand(selected bit)".  What is a
> quick way to do that. I can look at the code and have it ready.  If
> someone knows, then I would like to know, otherwise, I will probably
> look for how next week and share with you all.
>
> I love TeXmacs.  It is the program I use the most, and the one I love the 
> most.
>
> Thank you very much for the help.
> Peace.
> -Adrian.
>
> Any help in the problems I mentioned above is greatly appreciated.