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Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs CAS Integration


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  • From: Bill Page <address@hidden>
  • To: "Marcus L. Thompson" <address@hidden>
  • Cc: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs CAS Integration
  • Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:31:59 -0400

This might help:

http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/TeXmacs

FriCAS is the most actively maintained fork of the original Axiom project.

I have not used TeXmacs with FriCAS recently but last time I looked
everything you need to support FriCAS in TeXmacs is in the /contrib
directory of the FriCAS distribution.

Bill Page.


On 27 April 2017 at 12:29, Marcus L. Thompson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Good day.
>
> Was interested in putting together a TeXmacs/CAS arrangement similar to the
> well-known Maxima integration. While I would appreciate being able to just
> use Maxima itself, the program seems incapable of performing
> quotient/remainder operations with polynomials. This facility is critical
> for my purposes; and it's quite surprising that Maxima hasn't yet
> implemented such functionality.
>
> The goal, therefore, is to have a live symbolic document computation scheme
> similar to the Maxima integration; using a CAS which provides the needed
> polynomial functionality.
>
> In that spirit, I have installed Axiom for testing on my TexMacs-equipped
> Ubuntu machine. Based upon some of the program's documentation, Axiom may
> have the functionality I am looking for. However, after installing the core
> Axiom components, there appears to be no way of interacting with the program
> from the TexMacs UI.
>
> Finally, Xcas does indeed support the sought-after functionality with
> quorem. From what I was able to glean, Xcas can also be run via TexMacs in
> a manner similar to Maxima; but there seems to be little help getting this
> type of interface together with the TexMacs GUI.
>
> So, in a nutshell, any help getting Maxima-like UI functionality with Axiom
> and Xcas (or perhaps another CAS which has quotient/remainder functionality
> with polynomials) inside TexMacs would be quite well appreciated.
>
> Thank you; and have a great day.
>
>
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