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Le 25/03/2018 à 15:09, David Miller a écrit :

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From: David Miller <address@hidden>
Date: Mar 25, 2018 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] create OCTAVE and Maxima Session
To: Stefano Milani <address@hidden>
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Hi Stefano.

TeXmacs is a clever software project. I have used it quite a bit in the past. There are some problems however.

First, I have installed TeXmacs on MS Windows in the past. But, I now have Windows 10 and I tried to install TeXmacs using the download of the current Windows installer and it locked up the first time I used it and I had to kill the process to end it. Subsequent attempts to start the program failed so I removed it and reinstalled the program only to have the same result.

Second, in the past when I was able to get TeXmacs installed on Windows, configuring any plug-in session programs like Maxima and Octave is not a trivial process. As I recall there may be some help on this either on the TeXmacs website or on a user support forum. But it requires user configuration actions to set up environment variables and so forth.

Third, TeXmacs seems to work best on Linux distributions. I use a virtual machine with Virtual Box on my Windows system instead of a dedicated Linux partition. I use Lubunbtu  which is a version of Ubuntu. However, there are a couple of issues there also. It may be necessary to use super user to edit some TexMacs configuration files in order to get Octave to work properly as a session in TeXmacs. I had to do the same work around every time I installed a new version. You may also find that there are similar issues with other plug-ins as the support is quite unpredictable and seems to come and go with time. Worse however is the fact that recent Linux distributions seem to have dropped TeXmacs as a package due to dependencies on other packages used by TexMacs but the dependency versions are no longer included or supported by the Linux distribution. This means that TeXmacs will have to be modified in order to accomodate the currently supported dependencies or some other workaround devised.

I wish I had better news for you on this. Maybe someone involved in the TeXmacs project can provide some insight into how these issues are being resolved.

Best wishes.

David Miller 

On Mar 17, 2018 10:03 AM, Stefano Milani <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear all,

I try to create a session into texmacs.

I have already install octave and maxima in my pc but in INSERT-SESSION these software are not present.

How can I set it?

Best regards

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Stefano Milani

Structural Design Specialist

Ener Consulting S.r.l.