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Re: [TeXmacs] in search of advice about using TeXmacs + Maxima to compose documents


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  • From: Michael Shea <address@hidden>
  • To: Robert Dodier <address@hidden>
  • Cc: texmacs-users <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] in search of advice about using TeXmacs + Maxima to compose documents
  • Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 01:34:56 -0500
Robert,

Q1: I have worked quite a bit with Maxima in TeXmacs. Unfortunately their is no way I have found to get the  Maxima plugin to produce embedded plots. I work mainly in Windows and what I do is use the Snipping Tool which allows me to copy the plot to the clipboard and I just paste it in to TeXmacs.  

Q2: I just did a little experimenting for you and got the best results by going to Edit-Preferences-Convert-HTML and checkmark "Export mathematical formula as MathML".  Then after you export as HTML edit the file and put the MathJax CDN into <HEAD>. It works pretty good in Google Chrome. The only  problem I see in that some of my "Several Equations" (\eqnarray) environments in TeXmacs, the math font is too small, the same size as inline equations I think. I am not sure why it is happening . Also the math was not displaying correctly in Internet Explorer. 

To eliminate the step of manually adding the CDN into the exported HTML file might be avoided via a macro of some kind in TeXmacs. I am not sure though but I am sure someone will comment. 

BTW, The GnuPlot plugin allows for embedded graphs, and since Maxima uses Gnuplot, I was thinking of trying to compare the two plugins to see what they do differently. To much learning curve for me to take on right now though. The GnuPlot plugin does not work in Windows unfortunately.  

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:04 PM, Robert Dodier <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi everybody,

I am interested in using TeXmacs to compose documents which combine
text, math formulas, inputs and outputs from Maxima, and plots
generated by Maxima. I have looked through the information on the
TeXmacs web site and various other sources and although I have learned
a lot but I still have a couple of questions.

First question -- is there a way to arrange for plots generated by
Maxima to be embedded directly into a TeXmacs document? Maxima plots
are displayed in a separate window, from what I can tell. I could use
Maxima to generate a file (png) containing the plot, and then embed
that image into the document, but I was hoping that could be done
automatically.

Second question -- I would like to generate HTML output which makes
use of MathJax for typesetting math. Is there a way to do that?

Kind of a follow-on to the second question -- what is the general
approach that one would take to generate Textile + MathJax output? I
am hoping to achieve something like the output shown by this web page:
http://blog.felixbreuer.net/2010/03/19/writing-math.html

Thanks very much for any light you can shed on these questions, and
all the best.

Robert Dodier


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