Re: maxima initialization file



Greetings!

willisb@unk.edu writes:

> Thanks for the help with maxima's initialization file.
> 
> Using maxima 5.4 under Linux, I've only been able to get maxima to read
> init.lsp
> if the file is in the working directory. Putting it in /usr/lib/maxima-5.4
> or
> /usr/lib/maxima-5.4/src didn't work for me.
> 
> In the process of creating my init.lsp file, I discovered that maxima's
> save function
> outputs
> 
>     (in-package "maxima"
> 
> This needs to be manually changed to
> 
>     (in-package "maxima")
> 

This seems to be fixed in the 5.5-beta

> To auto-load the function "to_html" located in the file
> /home/barton/maxima/mathml4.3.o,  the
> following init.lsp file works for me:
> 
> ;;; -*- mode: lisp; package:maxima; syntax:common-lisp; -*-
> (in-package "maxima")
> 
> (defprop |$to_html| #"/home/barton/maxima/mathml4.3.o" autoload)
> (add2lnc '|$to_html| $props)
> 

These are your own custom functions, right?  Is there a problem with
this? 

Take care,

> BLW
> 
> University of Nebraska at Kearney
> 
> 
> 

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