[LUGSB] texmacs and maxima

[Sarang Lakare]

Hi guys,

In one of the meetings, there was a demo that showed texmacs as frontend to 
octave/maxima. I wanted to use it today.. but I am unable to figure out how 
to start texmacs as an interface to octave or maxima. Can anyone tell me?

Thanks
Sarang

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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Sarang Lakare wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> In one of the meetings, there was a demo that showed texmacs as frontend to
> octave/maxima. I wanted to use it today.. but I am unable to figure out how
> to start texmacs as an interface to octave or maxima. Can anyone tell me?
>
> Thanks
> Sarang

Sure can!

But first, I invite you to join the TeXmacs users mailing list. You can
find subscription details on www.texmacs.org. You'll pick up lots of neat
tricks and Scheme macros to make your TeXmacs experience much more
pleasant.

First, you need to have Octave and/or Maxima installed and in your
PATH environment variable so that TeXmacs can find it.

Then, you just launch TeXmacs.

To invoke an Octave / Maxima session within TeXmacs click on the sessions
button (looks like a little computer monitor, and it is right next to
the math equations button) and select the session that you want.

For generating mathematical plots or functions within TeXmacs documents,
Octave is probably the better choice. I am the author/maintainer of the
Octave <-> TeXmacs code though, so I'm biased :) But.. last time I
checked, Maxima couldn't generate a plot into TeXmacs.

OTOH, the Maxima glue is a bit more stable than that for Octave.

If you end up using the Octave / TeXmacs combination a lot, and if you
experience stability problems (the classic symptom is for TeXmacs output
to appear sporadically / incorrectly from Octave) please let me know.
There is a solution. It involves patching Octave.

Not everyone experiences these problems, so it may not be an issue for
you.

One day, we'll have the proper patches included in the mainline Octave
distribution and everyone's life will be easier (especially mine) :)